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Family law clients at Pryor Cashman experience all the benefits of a large firm – with its Trusts and Estates, Tax, Employee Benefits, Corporate and Real Estate groups – combined with a high level of personal service. Our team of family law practitioners understand that family law matters often require sensitive handling and a deft touch. Our lawyers have training in psychology, mediation, dispute resolution and advanced negotiation techniques, enabling them to navigate the sometimes rocky path toward resolving family matters with skill and grace. If the going gets tough and a negotiated resolution is not possible, our lawyers also have extensive litigation and trial experience.

Areas in which attorneys in our family law practice concentrate include:

• Child Custody and Visitation
• Child Support
• Divorce/Marital Dissolution
• Divorce Mediation
• Elder Care 
• Paternity
• Pre- and Post-Marital Agreements
• Same-Sex Couples Counseling
• Separation Agreements
• Spousal Support

The expertise of our family law attorneys is complemented by the skills of other lawyers in our firm. Thus, family law clients can receive estate planning assistance, tax counseling, help in selling their homes or businesses, and advice concerning pension and other employee benefits.

Examples of some of our work in the area of family law include:

• Obtained a judicial decision declaring a prenuptial agreement void for fraud and then negotiated a settlement favorable to our client
• Mediated the “divorce” of a same-sex female couple with a teenage daughter, crafting a detailed agreement creating contractual rights and remedies where none existed at law
• When a well-known major league baseball player was threatened with a paternity suit, we successfully blocked that suit, negotiating a resolution that was fair and reasonable, while sparing our client any exposure to adverse publicity
• In a divorce matter that began with criminal assault charges against one of the parties, we managed to so diffuse a tense and acrimonious situation that the former husband and wife are now successfully co-parenting their young child
• In a complex and unusual child support case involving parents who conceived a child through artificial insemination – with both donor sperm and donor egg – we brokered a marital dissolution that ensured the child’s future well-being