Lisa Marie Vari, Esq., LISA MARIE VARI & ASSOCIATES
At the law offices of Lisa Marie Vari & Associates, our practice is limited to family law issues. As a former Staff Attorney for the Family Division of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Ms. Vari understands the legal as well as the emotional and financial implications of a family law proceeding. Our offices' goal is to make your experience in and out of the courtroom as positive and convenient as possible. Whether you want to call us your divorce lawyers, child custody attorneys, support lawyers, adoption advocates, or something else, our team of attorneys and support staff are ready to assist you with your Pennsylvania family law matter.
Website: LISA MARIE VARI & ASSOCIATES, Pittsburgh, PA.
Phone: 412-281-9906.
Email: info@pafamilylawyers.com.
Linda Mainenti-Walsh, Esq., EINHORN HARRIS ASCHER BARBARITO FROST & IRONSON
Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito, Frost & Ironson, P.A., in Denville, New Jersey, represents clients facing criminal defense, family law, personal injury and other legal issues throughout North Jersey, including communities such as Morristown, Parsippany, Newark, West Orange and Livingston. Linda Mainenti-Walsh practices in the area of family law, including matrimonial, custody, domestic violence and non-dissolution matters.
Website: EINHORN HARRIS ASCHER BARBARITO FROST & IRONSON.
Phone: 973-627-7300.
Donald F. Spry, II, Esq., KING SPRY HERMAN FREUND & FAUL, LLC
Attorney Donald Spry is well-respected among lawyers and the general public for his thirty years of dedication to family law. Representing clients from all of eastern Pennsylvania, he handles a full range of domestic relations matters including equitable distribution, alimony, divorce, sole & joint child custody, and child support issues. A Moravian college grad and a law graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Attorney Spry is admitted to Pennsylvania's state and federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the past president of the Northampton County Bar Association and former chair of its Family Law & Family Court Rules Committee. Mr. Spry lecturs before civil and legal organizations in family law matters. His firm is a general practice with emphasis on personal injury, insurance defense, estates, commercial litigation, public & private financing, and, of course matrimonial law.
Website: KING SPRY HERMAN FREUND & FAUL, LLC, with 4 offices in PA.
Phone: 610-332-0390.
Email: dfs@kingspry.com
David Ladov, Esq., COZEN O'CONNOR
Joined the firm's West Conshohocken office in July 2003 and practices with the Family Law group, where he concentrates his practice in all areas of domestic relations, including divorce, custody, child support, equitable distribution and abuse. Prior to joining Cozen O'Connor, David was a founding member and managing partner with the law offices of Ladov, Bernbaum & Grossman in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Attorney Ladov comes to Cozen with a long, distinuished track record in family law practice, serving clients throughout southeastern Pennsylvania's five-county area (Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware and Chester) for decades. David is well known in both national and state family law circles as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and as an Annual Family Law Update Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Some of his PBI courses include: Fundamentals of Family Law, Equitable Distribution Update, Hot Tips in Family Law, Hot Issues in Custody, Ethics in Divorce; Custody Evaluations in the 90's (Support Guideline Update).
Website: COZEN O'CONNOR, West Conshohocken, PA.
Phone: 610-832-8377.
Email: dladov@cozen.com.
Bonnie Frost, Esq., EINHORN, HARRIS, ASCHER, BARBARITO, FROST & IRONSON
Bonnie C. Frost is Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito, Frost and Ironson's Administrative Partner. Since joining the firm in 1985, Ms. Frost has practiced in the matrimonial area, handling various cases such as divorce, custody, domestic violence, and paternity issues. She has authored numerous works in the area, including the Women's Legal Rights Booklet. She co-authored the State Bar, Family Law Section's Position Paper on Matrimonial Law 1997. In addition to being a member of the State Bar Family Law Executive Committee since 1994, she is also a Certified Matrimonial Law Attorney, Fellow of The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and Secretary of the District Court Ethics Committee.
Website: EINHORN HARRIS ASCHER BARABRITO FROST & IRONSON, Denville.
Phone 973-627-7300.
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Jennifer Brandt, Esq., COZEN O'CONNOR
Jennifer A. Brandt is a Member of the firm, practicing with the Family Law Practice Group. She has significant experience in representing parties in divorce, custody, and support matters both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She also assists parties in adoptions and in matters concerning incapacitated persons. Her involvement in family law litigation extends to both the trial court and appellate levels.
Website: COZEN O'CONNOR, with 23 offices worldwide.
Phone: 215-665-2113.
Email: jbrandt@cozen.com
Albert Momjian, Esq., SCHNADER HARRISON SEGAL & LEWIS, LLP
Perhaps the most venerated name in Pennsylvania matrimonial law, Mr. Momjian chairs Schnader's family law practice. His practice consists of complex matrimonial matters, including adoption, appeals, custody, divorce, premarital and postnuptial agreements, paternity and support. The firm’s family law practice frequently involves Mr. Momjian in developing areas of the law, such as surrogate parenting, spousal torts, constitutional issues and arbitration or mediation of family law disputes. Atty. Momjian has served on many committees that developed family laws in Pennsylvania. For example, he co-chaired the Committee to Consolidate Pennsylvania Family Laws and served as a consultant to the Pennsylvania House and Senate judiciary committees during extensive deliberations of the 1980 Divorce Code.
Website: SCHNADER HARRISON SEGAL & LEWIS, LLP.
Phone: 215-751-2000.
Email: amomjian@schnader.com
Julie A. Auerbach, Esq., ASTOR WEISS KAPLAN & MANDEL, LLP
Ms. Auerbach concentrates her practice in all phases of family law handling and counseling a variety of clients. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a member of The Pennsylvania and Delaware County (Family Law Section) Bar Associations. Ms. Auerbach is co-author of an article on the Analysis of the Divorce Code of 1990 for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. She is a regular contributor to the Legal Intelligencer and the Matrimonial Strategist, having written articles on a variety of topics in the family law area. In the non-legal area, Ms. Auerbach is on the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Family Support Line, which provides support for the child victims of sexual abuse.
Website: ASTOR WEISS KAPLAN & MANDEL, LLP, Philadelphia, Bala Cynwyd and Haddonfield.
Phone: 215-790-0100.
Email: auerbach@astorweiss.com
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Melissa Brisman, Esq., MELISSA BRISMAN, ESQ. LLC
The law office of Melissa Brisman provides legal services to intended parents and assists them in finding appropriate gestational carriers. Attorney Brisman drafts contracts and obtains court orders for gestational carrier arrangements, matches couples with the carrier of their choice and is acknowledged as a foremost expert in the legal implications of such arrangements.
Website: MELISSA BRISMAN, ESQ. LLC, New Jersey.
Phone: 201-505-0078.
Email: info@reproductivelawyer.com.
Professor Robert Rains, PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW
Professor Rains is one of Penn State Dickinson’s most widely published and traveled faculty members. His fields of special interest are family law, education law, juvenile law and the law related to persons with disabilities. He teaches courses in each of these areas, supervises the Disability Law Clinic, and, together with Professor Tom Place, supervises our Family Law Clinic. Professor Rains is a member of the International Society of Family Law and has lectured on family law issues in England, Ireland, Italy, Austria, France and Australia. He works extensively on legal issues relating to disabled persons and Social Security benefits and regularly appears as counsel or co-counsel for amici curiae before the United States Supreme Court. He sits on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives. A prolific writer and contributor to academic and professional journals, Professor Rains enjoys not only more traditional forms of professional writing but also gets special pleasure from writing about recent legal decisions in verse and fable form; his “law verses” and fables have been published in various legal and academic journals.
Website: PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW.
Phone: 717-240-5241.
Email: rer10@psu.edu
Harold Funt, Esq., MOSEBACH, FUNT, DAYTON & DUCKWORTH
Harold has been practicing Domestic Relations Law for over twenty-five years. The fomer President of the Lehigh County Bar Association, Harold has often been cited as one of the top family law practitioners in the Lehigh Valley. His virtual full-time family-law practice includes divorce, equitable distribution, alimony, divorce, sole and joint child custody, child support and adoption issues. Harold always believes in consulting with an attorney early on in the process to clarify legal issues pending any filing or legal process. “Too often.” says Harold, “future clients get too far into the process before coming to see me. If they had seen me even a little earlier on, with a few preventative measures, they would have saved themselves time, money and grief.” Mosebach, Funt, Dayton & Duckworth is a general practice with emphasis on personal injury, family law, tax, business, estates and more.
Website: MOSEBACH, FUNT, DAYTON & DUCKWORTH, with offices in Allentown and Bethlehem.
Phone: 610-882-9800.
Email: hfunt@mfddlaw.com