We handle financial issues incident to the dissolution of the marital partnership, including valuation and distribution of all types of closely held and family businesses, professional licenses, degrees and practices, trusts, partnerships, all with consideration of income, estate and gift tax consequences. We counsel our clients to explore reasonable settlement options, but when settlement cannot be reached, we develop creative and effective litigation and trial strategy to enhance our client's ability to achieve favorable results. Our list of reported decisions underscores our level of sophistication and expertise. Our attorneys bring to the practice of Family Law intense sensitivity to issues between parents and children. We consider the entire family dynamic, parental fitness, and the developmental needs of children, while striving to promote the best interests of the children of separating and divorcing parents. We represent mothers, fathers, same sex partners, and grandparents in disputes involving custody, visitation, and geographic relocation. We negotiate and draft pre-nuptial, post-nuptial, and separation agreements to insure the preservation of pre-marital property, and to avoid future disputes concerning the division of marital property. Our clients request these agreements to avoid misunderstandings between spouses and their families in the event of the dissolution of the marriage. We handle adoptions, including step parent and gay and lesbian second parent adoptions, and proceedings involving paternity and related child support and child custody issues. We have successfully negotiated agreements in this area in lieu of litigation.