Overview
Lawsuits carry high financial and emotional costs. Our family law attorneys help clients avoid them with creative solutions, including collaborative law and mediation. Our clients include high-profile and high net worth individuals and families, and their trusts and family businesses. We value wealth preservation, often taking advantage of premarital and post-marital estate planning. In cases involving children, their best interests are paramount.
We bring the firm’s successful litigation approach to the full range of issues faced by clients, including divorce litigation; collaborative divorce; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; parenting plans; modifications of alimony, custody, or child support; and domestic violence matters. Our team includes supreme court-certified civil mediators, certified family law mediators, and trained collaborative professionals who work with neutral mental health and financial experts to resolve family law cases out of court.
- Dissolution of Marriage. We litigate and mediate divorce case resolutions. This work involves collaborating with top forensic accountants to handle small properties and complex, multimillion-dollar estates; appraising real and personal properties; evaluating small to large businesses; and tracing marital and non-marital funds to determine equitable distribution and overall net worth. We regularly litigate for, and defend against, all types of alimony for both spouses, and are experienced with determinations regarding child custody (also known as “time-sharing” and “parenting plans”).
- Collaborative Law. Our trained collaborative professionals are equipped to resolve family law cases out of court, with a team of neutral mental health and financial professionals who pledge not to litigate, but to negotiate and reach solutions.
- Enforcement/Contempt/Modifications. We enforce final judgments of dissolution of marriage. Enforcement may result in a court finding the offending party in contempt. We also have extensive experience securing modification of time-sharing (custody) and parenting plans, child support, or alimony.
- Paternity Actions. We handle high- and low-profile paternity matters, which often require executing confidentiality agreements with all involved parties.
We are dedicated to remaining at the forefront of societal shifts that reshape the landscape of marriage and family dynamics. Notably, we represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case Pareto v. Ruvin, which upheld the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry in Florida, and successfully argued that Florida must recognize out-of-state adoptions by same-sex couples. As new legal inquiries surface, our practice is poised to remain at the cutting edge of evolving matrimonial and family law.