Kathryn S Lazar, Esq., Author at Lazar, Schwartz & Jones

November 11, 2022

CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS DESPITE A BREAKUP, SEPARATION OR DIVORCE

You can celebrate the holidays happily with good self care even in divorce or other life change

October 22, 2022

Searching On-Line For Top Divorce Attorneys in Dutchess County- Buyers Beware!

We recently ran a number of on-line searches for divorce attorneys in Dutchess County, New York using a number of different word searches. The results were frightening! These searches lead uninformed people seeking divorce lawyers to some of the worst ...

May 30, 2022

Brett E. Jones Named to American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

May 2022 – Lazar Schwartz & Jones, LLP is pleased to announce that partner, Brett E. Jones,Esq. has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). The AAML is comprised of the top matrimonial attorneys with ...

November 6, 2021

Emotions and the Cost of Divorce

Emotions can prevent a divorcing client from working effectively with an attorney. The client can become immobilized, experience failure to concentrate and at worst be unable to recognize and accept a reasonable settlement proposal. As a result, the attorney has ...

August 15, 2021

HAS COVID INCREASED THE DIVORCE RATE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY?

Many people have asked us whether there is an increase in divorce since the shutdown of 2020. Although it is too early to really know, it seems to us that it may not be so, even though we have been ...

June 3, 2021

Business Owners and Divorce: Valuing a Business in Divorce

CONTROLLING COST AND CONTENTION AROUND EXPERT APPRAISALS When your divorce involves a business owned by you or your spouse, or you and your spouse, the value of the business will most likely figure in the divorce. If you and your ...

November 24, 2019

Life After Divorce

Last month our post covered legal and personal strategies for getting through divorce. This month we’ll cover some post-divorce strategies for self-care and family care. Good news: these two parts of the divorce process tap some of the same skills, ...

October 23, 2019

How Will I Survive the End of My Marriage?

No one likes to think, when entering into a marriage, that it will at some point come to an unhappy ending. Along the way many couples realize that the marriage is no longer working. Some are able to work together ...

October 6, 2019

Kathryn Lazar leads professional workshops

Kathryn Lazar, founder of the law firm Lazar & Schwartz and of MH Mediation, will present workshops at national conferences of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM) in October and November ...