Marital Litigation and Mediation

The heart of any domestic relations or family law practice is litigation between spouses to modify their relationship (separate maintenance) or to dissolve their marriage entirely (divorce). The length of the marriage and the earning capacities of the parties will bear chiefly on whether spousal support is an issue. Additionally, if the parties have produced children, they will need to determine whether custody, parenting time or child support will be an issue in the case. If these issues are present, each case has, at its core, defining, valuing and dividing marital property, and allocating marital debt. Deciding what influence fault in the breakdown of the marriage (if any) will have on the final outcome also must be faced