Family Law
Divorce, custody, guardianship, maintenance and succession, handled with discretion and without escalation.
Detailed overview
Family matters are legal problems attached to people who have to keep dealing with one another afterwards. We advise accordingly: firmly on entitlement, carefully on tone, and always with an eye on what the arrangement will look like in five years.
Wherever the facts allow it, we pursue negotiated and mediated settlements. They are faster, materially cheaper, private, and — where children are involved — almost always the better outcome. When the other side will not engage, we litigate without hesitation.
All family instructions are handled by a small, fixed team, and files are access-restricted internally. Confidentiality in this practice is a matter of client safety, not just professional obligation.
- Divorce, dissolution and judicial separation
- Child custody, guardianship and visitation arrangements
- Maintenance, spousal support and financial provision
- Division of matrimonial property and financial disclosure
- Prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements
- Adoption and legal guardianship applications
- Protection orders and domestic-abuse relief
- Succession, inheritance shares and estate distribution
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
A marriage is ending and you need to understand your position before you agree to anything.
Custody or visitation arrangements need to be established, varied or enforced.
Maintenance has not been paid and needs to be recovered.
An estate must be distributed among heirs and the shares are disputed.
The attorneys handling family law.
Negotiated relocation and shared custody across jurisdictions
- The challenge
- A contested relocation application would have taken eighteen months, cost both parties heavily, and produced a binary result. The children were of school age and the uncertainty was already affecting them.
- The outcome
- A consent arrangement was agreed in four mediated sessions over eleven weeks and recognised in both jurisdictions. Neither parent attended a contested hearing. The arrangement has operated without variation since.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“Mariam handled my divorce and custody arrangement over eleven months. She never once let it become a fight for its own sake, and my children were protected from all of it. I have recommended her to three people since.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
Speak to the family law team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.