Family Law

Bressler, Amery & Ross offers its clients one of the region’s most sophisticated and diverse family law practices. In addition to its services in the traditional areas of divorce, spousal and child support, property distribution, and child custody, the firm’s attorneys have extensive experience with premarital and post-marital agreements, qualified domestic relations orders, domestic partner issues, marital tax matters, domestic violence, and business structuring issues. In addition to its representation of individuals, the firm regularly represents financial institutions in connection with such issues as qualified domestic relations orders, pension issues, garnishments, and subpoenas, as well as small businesses grappling with family succession issues. The firm’s attorneys have handled some of the region’s largest equitable distribution cases, landmark cases involving grandparent visitation and foreign divorce enforcement, interstate custody disputes, interpretation of qualified domestic relations orders, international family litigation, and validity of marital agreements. Every lawyer in the group is an experienced litigator.

Our clients have included professional athletes, renowned entertainers, business owners, corporate executives, lawyers, physicians and accountants, and authors or the spouses of such individuals. The firm’s competitive fee structure enables it to offer services to a wide-ranging clientele.

The practice group has wide experience in both New York and New Jersey and has freuqently assisted clients with issues spanning both states and the differences in their respective family laws. One of the practice group attorneys has not only served hundreds of individual clients, but has also worked as a special master, referee, guardian, mediator, and arbitrator in matrimonial cases. The firm also has a strong multidisciplinary approach to complex matters embracing family law, estate planning, business planning, and tax issues. The family practice group takes pride in the high number of referrals it receives from prior and existing clients and leading members of the legal, financial, and accounting communities.