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Family Law

  • Personalized service of a boutique matrimonial practice backed by the resources of a full-service law firm, enabling clients to address complex business valuations, real estate holdings, tax issues, and other financial matters without retaining separate counsel
  • Divorce, including equitable distribution, alimony, child custody and support, relocation, retirement, and cohabitation disputes, domestic violence (TRO/FRO proceedings), prenuptial and palimony agreements, and post-judgment enforcement and modification
  • Extensive experience in high-net-worth matters involving complicated asset valuation, forensic accounting, and complex financial structures

The firm’s family law team is dedicated to guiding individuals through sensitive and often challenging personal matters, offering the responsive and personalized service of a boutique matrimonial practice backed by the comprehensive support of a full-service business law firm. In this intimate and highly nuanced area of the law, where trust is critical, our attorneys stand among the preeminent practitioners in New Jersey, providing effective and compassionate representation in all areas of domestic relations through negotiation, mediation, litigation and the appellate process.

Greenbaum’s family law attorneys are accomplished, tenacious litigators and persuasive, strategic negotiators. Highly effective as trial attorneys, they are equally adept at finding creative solutions through alternatives to litigation, including arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Our work for clients encompasses litigated and negotiated matters involving divorce, separation, child custody and guardianship, child support, alimony and spousal maintenance, equitable distribution, domestic violence, prenuptial agreements, and post-divorce judgment enforcement and modifications.

Our team’s extensive experience has resulted in success in the representation of matrimonial clients in high-net-worth and/or high-conflict cases.  In situations involving business or real estate ownership and valuation, complex tax or investment issues, bankruptcy or other tangential matters, the broad scope of the firm’s practice offers clients the opportunity to obtain particularized expertise without retaining separate counsel.

Published Cases

  • In Leonard v. Leonard (2012), represented the defendant in a New Jersey Chancery Division decision addressing the valuation and equitable distribution of complex marital assets, providing guidance on how courts should analyze and allocate business and investment interests in high-asset divorce proceedings. 
  • In Rolle v. Rolle (1987), represented the plaintiff in a New Jersey Chancery Division decision resolving contested financial and equitable distribution issues, contributing to the development of New Jersey case law governing the treatment of marital property in divorce matters. 
  • In Sculler v. Sculler (2001), represented the defendant in a New Jersey Chancery Division decision addressing the burden of proof for equitable distribution of appreciation in premarital and inherited assets, providing guidance on treatment of “active” immune property in divorce proceedings. 
  • In Kelly v. Kelly (1986), represented the plaintiff in a New Jersey Chancery Division decision affirming his right to overnight parenting time in the presence of an unrelated partner, clarifying standards for post-judgment visitation restrictions. 
  • In Lombardi v. Lombardi (2016), successfully represented the plaintiff securing a precedential New Jersey Appellate Division decision establishing that regular savings is a component of marital lifestyle and must be considered in calculating alimony. The ruling created statewide uniformity and is routinely cited in contested alimony matters throughout New Jersey. 
  • In Isaacson v. Isaacson (2012), defended the obligor and obtained a precedential New Jersey Appellate Division decision confirming that child support, regardless of parental affluence, is subject to reasonable limits. The decision articulated the widely cited “three pony rule,” affirming that a parent is not required to fund unlimited luxuries as part of child support. 
  • In Ciasulli v. Ciasulli (2004), represented the non-titled spouse in a landmark New Jersey divorce case, securing a trial and New Jersey Appellate Division ruling recognizing that, where significant delay occurs between complaint and trial, even an “active” business may experience passive appreciation subject to equitable distribution. Following a period of nearly 10 years, the court awarded the firm’s client millions of dollars in additional distributive share based on post-complaint passive growth. 

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When managing a high-net-worth divorce, factoring in the complexity of business valuations, executive benefits, and diversified portfolios requires a highly specialized legal strategy. In this video, Greenbaum family law practice leader Mark H. Sobel explores the unique financial intricacies that must be navigated to safeguard a client’s assets and protect their long-term financial well-being.

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