New York Family and Divorce Lawyers

Family and Divorce Law

20 West park Avenue, Suite 201, Long Beach, NY 11561

Heidi Bernstein manages our matrimonial, family law and criminal and traffic law practice. Heidi has been a practicing attorney for over twenty-eight years with extensive experience in matrimonial and family court matters, prenuptial agreements, separation agreements and post-nuptial agreements in addition to handling educational law issues, criminal and traffic matters, and mental health and drug court cases. Heidi has won numerous trials involving custody, child support, maintenance, and equitable distribution. Heidi has successfully represented clients in divorce actions, criminal contempt proceedings, family offense matters, and relocation petitions. Ms. Bernstein has handled same ­sex family court and matrimonial actions and has secured parental rights to same­ sex partners before the passing of the Marriage Equality Act in 2011. Heidi draws on her perspective as a trial lawyer to counsel and advocate for clients facing these and other significant life events.

Family and Divorce Law

3 Blue Goose Ln, Huntington, NY 11743

Family and Divorce Law

777 3rd Ave, RM 32D, New York, NY 10017

Ira is recognized by both his colleagues and judges as one of the top matrimonial attorneys in New York. He has been listed as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” since 2008 and has received a Preeminent Rating for the past fifteen years for both legal ability and ethical standards (“AV”) in the Martindale Hubbell directory of attorneys. Ira has been named in the New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine “Super Lawyers” section as among the top attorneys in the New York Metropolitan Area since 2006. Ira entered private practice in 1978 initially as a commercial litigator. In 1985 Ira formed his own firm, primarily focusing on Family Law. Since that time Ira has been a frequent lecturer at the Bar Association and Continuing Legal Education programs. Ira has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s Law School teaching a course in trial advocacy. He received his J.D. in 1974 from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and his B.A. in 1971 from University of Pennsylvania.

Family and Divorce Law

350 5th Ave #7620, New York, NY 10118, USA

Isaiah Vallejo-Juste is an attorney with eighteen years of experience in matrimonial and commercial litigation and has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers for the year 2019, 2020, 2021, and recognized as a Super Lawyer in 2022 and 2023. In addition, Isaiah is also an adjunct professor with Marist College, where he has taught classes such as Administrative Law, Ethics, and Politics and Policy for the College’s MPA program since 2013. He has also taught CLEs for the New York State Bar Association in the area of matrimonial law, and has appeared on WABC radio news as an authority on legal issues. Isaiah has represented some of New York’s City’s most successful and affluent individuals in the area of family law, including, divorces, prenuptial agreements, support hearings, custody proceedings, family offense proceedings, appeals, and all other family law proceedings throughout the New York City metropolitan area. Isaiah often also taps into his substantial commercial litigation experience in litigating complex financial issues involved in a divorce. As a commercial litigator, Isaiah successfully litigated commercial matters against some of New York City’s most prestigious firms. He has represented companies and individuals in breach of contract, tort cases, UCC matters, and real estate litigations. Isaiah is also a member of the matrimonial committee of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the New York City Women’s Bar Association. He is a 2005 graduate of Albany Law School (cum laude) where he served as an associate editor of the Environmental Law Review and was Vice President of the Latin American Law Students Association. Isaiah is also a 2002 graduate of New York University where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Isaiah lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Family and Divorce Law

1 N Lexington Ave, White Plains, NY 10601, USA

James Nolletti is an accomplished negotiator and litigator with over three decades of wide-ranging experience in matrimonial and family law cases. He is the founder of Nolletti Law Group, a firm focused exclusively on the unique needs of its divorce and family law clients. Formerly, Mr. Nolletti was the supervising partner of the family law and matrimonial litigation practice at the White Plains firm of Collier, Halpern, Newberg & Nolletti. James Nolletti began his career as a criminal trial prosecutor in the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and has since represented clients in numerous and notable cases at both the trial and appellate court levels.