Family Law and Divorce

You can rely on Sacks Tierney's divorce and tax attorneys to understand your needs and deliver aggressive representation in the most difficult legal proceeding that many individuals ever experience.

The end of a marriage or other relationship is not only a difficult personal experience, it also can be the catalyst for a broad range of legal controversies involving property and taxation issues, business ownership, income, support, and child custody and visitation. Before commencing a partnership or marriage, protection of assets and income is also an important consideration.

When the stakes are high and issues are complex, your selection of a knowledgeable, experienced and aggressive attorney is critical. We can help protect your interests involving:

• Divorce, legal separation, annulment, or dissolution of domestic partnerships

• Complex community property disputes and settlement

• Equitable distribution of property

• Child support establishment, modification, and enforcement

• Child custody, visitation, and parental access arrangements - initial or modified - relating to temporary or permanent physical placement and parenting schedules

• Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial and domestic partnership agreements

• Tax matters arising out of divorce or separation

• Protection of separate or solely owned assets

• Protection of retirement accounts and pension plans

• Protection of trusts and inheritances

• Business valuation, tax issues, and distribution of business assets

• Spousal maintenance

• Relocation of children

• Interstate and international custody disputes

• Paternity establishment

• Rights of children

• Orders of protection and injunctions against harassment

• Grandparent and non-parent rights

• Mediation, arbitration and settlement of disputes to resolve matters outside of court