Steven J. Mandel

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The Mandel Law Firm handles contested divorce, uncontested divorce, child custody and visitation, adoption, spousal support, cases involving domestic violence and LBGT Divorces. Hiring a divorce lawyer in NYC is not easy. It's a difficult time in your life, and you need an attorney who will answer your questions in confidence, and fight for you in the courtroom as needed. The Mandel Law firm stands ready to help. For directions and more reviews, visit us on google here: https://goo.gl/maps/ZYTNDvYnhWQ2. You can read more about Steve here: https://www.mandellawfirm.com/attorney-profiles/steve-j-mandel/ or just give us a call at 646-832-2266.

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“He keeps you feeling secure and he sticks to the fact and you always get the sense that this guy is not gonna lose. He’s so quick with it, and so nimble on his feet and that I always trust what he’s gonna do.” – Ric Molina

“There are no words to express the thanks that my husband and I and our whole family have to this man. He’s unbelievably marvelous. “ – Liz Fried

“Because of Mandel Law Firm, I was able to see my daughter, who I haven’t see in five years. Because of their efforts, I was able to see her and we reconnected and build a relationship now.” – Wilson Lopez

“Matrimonial law is different than latter of other areas. In that, the more the clients fight, the more money the attorneys bake. So you’ll have some attorneys who are unscrupulous or just flat out greedy or inexperienced who will fuel the litigation. Where as, I have the experience and I know how to settle a case. But settle it on terms that are good for the client. I am not going to pour fuel on a fire just to have people litigate.” – Attorney Steven Mandel

“You just feel like he’s a friend with you when you are sitting on a court room, you don’t feel like sitting with somebody else on a suit, not at all.” – Grainne O’Flynn

“I can make so much more money doing another area, but I get a personal satisfaction.” - Attorney Steven Mandel

“I met him as my lawyer during a very difficult and trying situation and he got me through it and in a course of knowing him through that difficult time, he became a real friend.” – Virginia Randall

“A number of them are my friends today and I use that word very sincerely and it means a lot to me. That’s where really why I decided to go to family law and do what I do.” – Attorney Steven Mandel

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People going through a divorce or even thinking about divorce, often want to know, how much alimony or maintenance can I get, or how much will I have to pay?

Well, until recently, there were 20 factors that _________________, the big factors were the durations of the marriage, the contribution of the parties to the marriage, their lifestyle, and the age and health of the parties.

The law was totally discretionary and ______ by the county and even the judges in the same court house.

On January 23rd 2016 we have a major changed, and now we use a mathematical formula taking into account each parties income and the judge then comes up with a guideline amount. You can convince the judge to deviate from those guidelines if you show them a valid reason.

This is with good lawyering comes in, see every lawyer knows the law, but not every lawyer knows how to make the law works for you.

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Clients asked me, what am I entitled to receive for child support or how much do I have to pay for child support? Well, it’s statutory, it’s govern by the Child Support Standards Act Guidelines.

First of all, we figure out each parties’ gross income and from gross the only deduction we take are New York City Tax and Social Security. Then for one child, you have to pay 17%, two children 25%, three children 29%, four children 31% of your gross figure. That gives you the basic child support.

In addition to that there are statutory add-ons, they are basically childcare expenses, un-reimburst medical expenses, possibly education expenses, possibly extracurricular expenses. This is the pay on top of the base figure and its paid of the proportion to the parties’ income.

The courts do have discretion, its not like you just punch them as you do calculator, they have discretion especially in cases involving high wage earners. This is where you need a lawyer who knows how to convince the judge to deviate from the guidelines and come up with the result that is most favorable to you.

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Clients ask me, while the divorce is going on or even before I start to divorce, can I date? Well the legal answer is yes, there is absolutely nothing to stop you. Fault doesn’t matter when it comes to distribution of the marital assets or how much you are entitled to receive for alimony and do I have to pay for maintenance.

But that’s the law school answer, I’ve been doing this since 1980 and I know that life is not that simple especially when children are involved. My advice to you is if you are going to date, be discreet, keep your children out of it, because if you were not discreet there’s a chance you might lost custody and/or it can affect your parenting time.

Also, think about it, how happy do you think your spouse is going to be that you are in another relationship? Where as it doesn’t affect how much they it may get, if will affect how likely they are to want to resolve this case amicably and expeditiously.

So if you are going to date, please be discreet about it especially if you want this case (divorce) to go smoothly.

People getting divorce want to know, what am I entitled to? New York is an equitable distribution state, that means everything acquired during a marriage with a few exemptions is automatically split equitably, equitably doesn’t mean equally. It doesn’t matter who’s name the asset is in, it doesn’t matter who acquired it, if it acquired during the marriage it is going to be equitably divided.

There are 14 factors that going to decide how splitting this up, the big ones are; how long are the parties married, the contribution of the parties to the marriage, and the future earning capacity of the parties’.

See, this area of the law is truly an art, it’s not a science. You need a lawyer who really understands it, but most importantly knows how to convince the judge to give you all that which you are entitled to.

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