Experience and Qualifications
Solo practitioner and member of the Second Department Appellate Division’s Assigned Law Guardian Panel with significant experience in litigation from beginning to end of a case [1]
Practice Areas:
Child Custody:
- Modification
- Visitation and custody for non-parents (grandparents, aunt/uncles etc)
- Interstate filings and modifications
Child Support:
- Modifying (downward and upward)
- Violations of support orders
- Spousal maintenance
Administrative Law:
- Unemployment insurance appeals
- Disability benefit appeals
- Employment law:
- Hostile work environment
- Good cause for resignation as grounds for benefit entitlement
Criminal defense, Orders of Protection, Family Offense cases and civil/criminal contempt proceedings:
- IDV court
- Family Offenses
New York State Appellate Practice:
- Family Court appeals
- Grounds including:
- 6th Amendment right to counsel/ ineffective assistance of counsel
- Infringement upon one’s protected 14th amendment procedural due process rights
- Evidentiary insufficiency
- Judicial impropriety in earlier proceeding
- Protected liberty parental right/liberty interest in their children
- 4th amendment search and seizure
- Prosecutorial misconduct
Employment law, administrative law (article 78 proceedings), appellate practice and constitutional/civil rights law (limited solely to the family law arena)
[1] The 18B panel provides effective representation to low income-level clients, who otherwise could not hire a private attorney. This is not the same as pro-bono representation.A family court judge determines eligibility for 18-B assistance, and as a result I am unable to represent a client at not cost unless the court assigns me or I take the case pro-bono.
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