My Practice Areas

With more than 30 years of experience, I have successfully represented clients from the Panhandle to Key West in the following areas:

• Family Law Matters
  • Dissolution of Marriage / Divorce
  • Child Support
  • Alimony and Child Custody Enforcement and Modification
  • Parental Relocation
  • Family Court Mediation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Paternity

• Business Litigation
  • Shareholder Disputes
  • Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements
  • Corporate Misappropriation
  • Business Dissolution
  • Constructive and Resulting Trusts
  • Fraudulent Conveyances
  • Partition of Real Estate
  • Specific Performance
  • Landlord – Tenant Litigation
  • Breach of Contract and Fraud

• Foreclosure
  • Residential Mortgage Foreclosures
  • Commercial Mortgage Foreclosures
• Real Estate – Member of Attorneys’ Title Fund Services, LLC.

An advocate of alternative dispute resolution, I am certified as an arbitrator by the Florida Supreme Court and have presided over a number of arbitration proceedings in Palm Beach County. I have also been appointed by the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, to serve as a special master in a variety of cases.

A member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, I am admitted to practice before all Florida State Courts, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida.

Appellate Decisions

I have appeared as “Counsel of Record” in several reported appellate decisions, including, but not limited to:

• Three Palms Associates v. U.S. # 1 Fitness Centers, Inc., 984 So.2d 540 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008);
• Karnbach v. Karnbach, 971 So.2d 1031 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008)
• Trontz v. Winig, 905 So.2d 1026 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005)
• Harbus v. Harbus, 874 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004)
• Huitt v. Hsia, 859 So.2d 547 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003)
• Huitt v. Hsia, 848 So.2d 459 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003)
• Goodman v. Goodman, 797 So.2d 1282 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)
• C & S Computers, Inc. v. Bodensiek, 662 So.2d 1383 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995)
• Bacon v. Bacon, 536 So.2d 1080 (Fla. 4th DCA1988)

Education:

Admitted to practice law in Florida in October 1983.

Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire – Juris Doctorate in May 1983

The State University of New York at Albany – Undergraduate degree, cum laude May 1979

Union College and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1975 – 1977