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    Top Family Lawyers 2022

    Feb. 16, 2022

    Top Family Law Lawyers

    In This Issue:

    Stephanie I. Blum

    REUBEN RAUCHER & BLUM

    Family

    Courts embrace mandatory private mediation in civil cases

    An appellate decision last year appears to recognize that our trial courts are overworked and need alternative means for resolving disputes. The ruling also suggests that more attorneys are likely to train to become mediators.

    Andy Cook

    LAW OFFICE OF ANDY COOK

    Donna A. Denham

    DENHAM FAMILY LAW, APC

    Rod Firoozye

    LAW OFFICES OF ROD FIROOZYE

    Family

    What’s yours may not be all yours: IP and family law

    Suddenly, what was a stack of dusty papers before the divorce becomes a multi-million-dollar enterprise. But wait, you’re getting divorced! What happens to your newfound riches?

    Myra Chack Fleischer

    FLEISCHER & RAVREBY

    Demetria L. Graves

    THE GRAVES LAW FIRM

    Eva M. Martelle

    ALLAN & MARTELLE, LLP

    Casey J. Marticorena

    SCHWEITZER LAW PARTNERS

    Family

    Spousal support should be determined objectively

    There are multiple objections to the current state of the law. To begin with, the required analysis is entirely subjective, a problem that is compounded by a lack of transparency.

    Christopher C. Melcher

    WALZER MELCHER LLP

    Wazhma Mojaddidi

    MOJADDIDI LAW

    Tigran Palyan

    PALYAN LAW, APC

    Stacy D. Phillips

    BLANK ROME LLP

    Brandon C. Rose

    MCMANIS FAULKNER

    Family

    Murkiness grows: Appellate ruling’s impact upon permanent support modifications

    Family law litigation is fraught with uncertainty. There are a host of reasons for this, but the most obvious stem from the fact that all findings are made by one individual finder of fact, the bench officer, who is entrusted with immense discretion. Experienced counsel know, and struggle, with the reality that judge A will make a ruling that may be markedly different from judge B and even judge C.

    Gina N. Policastri

    LONICH PATTON EHRLICH POLICASTRI

    Kristina Royce

    BLANK ROME LLP

    Debra R. Schoenberg

    SCHOENBERG FAMILY LAW GROUP, P.C.

    Maya Shulman

    SHULMAN FAMILY LAW GROUP

    Erin C. Smith

    FAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT

    Stephen Temko

    STEPHEN TEMKO ATTORNEY AT LAW

    Laura A. Wasser

    WASSER, COOPERMAN & MANDLES

    Family

    A surge in self-represented litigants in family law cases

    Since the creation of programs to help self-represented parties in the 1990s, the number of parties representing themselves in family law cases (and in civil matters) has increased exponentially.
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