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Practice Area

Family & Matrimonial

Family & Matrimonial lawyers can assist with a wide variety of issues that affect your family life. For example, these lawyers can help you establish who has the right to care for and make important decisions about a child, end a marriage while protecting your rights, or determine the financial support that an ex-spouse owes a child or another spouse.

Family & Matrimonial lawyers can assist with the following types of cases:

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Adoption
  • Child Custody
  • Child Support
  • Divorce/Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Paternity
  • Prenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements
  • And more...

How the SCBA Lawyer Referral Service can help

The Suffolk County Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service can refer you to a pre-screened lawyer to help with your Family & Matrimonial issue in Suffolk County, New York. Every lawyer who participates in our lawyer referral service maintains professional liability insurance of at least $100,000 and has demonstrated experience in their practice area.

When you have a consultation with the lawyer you are referred to, the lawyer will charge you no more than $25 for the first 30 minutes of the consultation. During the consultation, you and the lawyer can decide if you want to work together. If you hire the lawyer, the lawyer will charge you their regular fees for additional work.

Get a 30-minute consultation for $25.

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