Robert Michaels is a skilled negotiator and trial attorney with almost 40 years of experience resolving family and matrimonial matters in the areas of child custody, child and spousal support and equitable distribution at the trial and Appellate level. 

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Mr. Michaels has tried numerous custody and equitable distribution matters, as well as Hague matters concerning child abductions and successfully prepared and argued appeals in the First and Second Department in New York, as well as in United States Court of Appeals. He has been practicing matrimonial and family law for over thirty-five years. Before concentrating primarily on the practice of matrimonial and family law, Robert negotiated and resolved hundreds of non-matrimonial cases, including commercial, product liability, personal injury, and professional malpractice matters. He has tried many jury and non-jury cases in the State and Federal Courts.