A FIRM DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO DIVORCE AND FAMILY LAW
- AGGRESSIVE REPRESENTATION
- PERSONAL ATTENTION
- FREE CONSULTATIONS
- VERY REASONABLE RATES
(Retainers as low as $2,000 and hourly rates as low as $245 on select cases)
OUR CASES HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN NATIONAL PUBLICATION; NEWSDAY; AND TELEVISION NETWORK NEWS
Even though we are well-known for our aggressive litigation tactics, we also provide mediation services, and we offer our services to clients who seek separation and or Prenuptial Agreements.
Mediation is handled by attorneys in our firm and involves giving the clients personal attention, materials and information and assisting them (both the husband and wife) in reaching an agreement. The mediated agreement will then be drafted and submitted to Court for a final divorce or separation based upon the terms agreed upon by the client.
Mr. Salamone has handled thousands of divorces. He will assist you in reaching an agreement if you seek his advice in mediating your case.
Some of our clients have settled their cases in just one day through mediation. Mediation is a flat-fee service and requires participation from the clients and personal attention from our firm.
We have the experience to help you reach a separation or divorce mediation agreement.
Divorce mediation is best handled by divorce attorneys who know the problems that can arise. Bryan L. Salamone & Associates, P.C. began to offer divorce mediation after we received more than 50 cases in one year involving problematic divorce mediation agreements. In these cases, the agreements were usually made by non-attorneys and/or paralegals. That is not done in our firm. At Bryan L. Salamone & Associates, P.C., the mediation agreement is reached between the parties, and an EXPERIENCED DIVORCE ATTORNEY ACTS AS A MEDIATOR.
In divorce mediation, we handle the following issues:
- Grounds for divorce
- Custody
- Support
- Equitable distribution (property and finances)
Grounds
Whether it is a separation or divorce, we will discuss the grounds for divorce and/or separation. We will discuss how you can agree to a divorce by neither admitting to nor denying the alleged grounds but consenting to a divorce. We will present you with alternatives available to you in order to agree to a divorce under the appropriate grounds and/or to a separation.
Custody
Custody comes in many variations. As divorce practitioners, we have significant expertise in custody law. We can present you with the prevailing trends and offer insight into which custodial arrangements might benefit you and your children, based on your circumstances.
Custody can be described as follows:
- Sole custody;
- Residential custody to one parent with legal custody to the other;
- Residential custody with one parent, legal custody to the other, with the residential parent having final say;
- Joint shared parenting, true joint custody;
- Residential custody to one parent with joint custody to the second parent and a neutral parent coordinator in connection with decisions; or
- Custody involving spheres of influence, recognizing one parent's need or special ability to be responsible for various issues whether it is health, education or religion.
A traditional custodial arrangement may or may not work for you. We are willing to take whatever arrangement you suggest and fashion it into an Agreement that can be incorporated into your divorce or separation. If you need suggestions, we are here to help. We can give you our experience and advice in order to help you make an Agreement that will save you money and will work in the best interests of your children. In the end, the agreement may make you and your former spouse better parents.
Support
In connection with divorce mediation, many financial issues will be decided, child and spousal support being among the most critical. Your divorce should not leave you incapable of caring for yourself or your children, nor should it require you to pay excessively. Many unique and creative ways exist to deal with child and spousal support.
Whether there is a home, retirement benefits, vehicles, unusual debts, or undisclosed business income, our family law attorneys can discuss the ramifications of your finances and how to best deal with support issues. We will provide you with our experience and our advice as to child support. We fully understand the laws governing child support and the options available to you, including opting out, which means that a party may be forced to pay more than the usual amount of child support in certain cases and/or the parties may agree to accept far less than the usual child support in some cases. In some instances no child support is paid.
Spousal support, formerly called alimony and sometimes known as spousal maintenance, is equally important. Many options exist for dealing with spousal support. We will discuss the tax ramifications of spousal support, as well as offsetting spousal support with other properties such as pensions and/or equity in a home. We will provide you with the law of spousal support and the possibility of modifying spousal support. We will advise you as to the ramifications of agreeing to a Spousal Support Order or waiving spousal support.
Equitable Distribution
In connection with our services, we will discuss the law regarding separate property and premarital assets and explain how the laws regarding them impact your divorce.
We will discuss your assets and your liabilities as well as pensions, retirement accounts and businesses. All of these matters can be evaluated and split or otherwise apportioned. Houses can be appraised. We give you experience and advice and we can provide you with a list of acceptable appraisers, pension appraisers and business evaluators. If you agree to use them, or choose to use your own, we can take the appraisal or the Evaluation Report, discuss it with you and help turn it into an acceptable separation or mediation agreement that both spouses can live with.
We will advise you as to the feasibility of one spouse buying out the other from the marital residence, whether property should logically be split and sold, whether assets have real value or whether they are negative equity assets. We will advise you as to how one spouse’s contributions to a separate property may cause that separate property to have an appreciated value that could be marital and subject to distribution. We will discuss how spousal contributions can cause any appreciation of a separate asset to be a marital asset. We will tell you the prevailing law concerning transmuting or commingling assets.
What Can You Expect From Mediation?
We not only go over the numbers with you, talk to you about the law, review the facts with you, and discuss your children with you, we always get the job done. What this means is that we will provide you with the agreement and the Judgment of Divorce. We will not, like others, give you an agreement and tell you to divorce on your own. We will help you do it all. It will all be done so long as you both can agree within a reasonable amount of sessions.
Our Retainers for mediations are $2,000, for which you receive a certain amount of hours, sessions, and all of the paperwork involved in a divorce. Extra funds will be required simply for filing fees, and for an expert house appraisal, business appraisal, or pension appraisal.
If you cannot agree on a certain issue, we offer “framed issue” sessions for an additional price. A framed issue session allows us to discuss at great length the one issue that is preventing you from entering into an agreement.
DO NOT GO TO PARALEGALS.
DO NOT GO TO NON-ATTORNEY MEDIATORS.
GET YOUR MEDIATION DONE BY AN EXPERIENCED DIVORCE LITIGATOR.
We know what happens during a divorce. We know the trends in the Courts. We have seen hundreds of cases each year and we can help you reach an agreement in your case no matter how unique you feel your situation is. If you can agree, we can get you divorced.
If your matter is important, do not e-mail; call us immediately.
Conveniently located in Dix Hills, Long Island
LIE Exit 51
631-424-3597
Well-known for aggressive representation of clients in complex, high-conflict cases.
