Firm Overview

SAMUELSON, HAUSE & SAMUELSON, LLP
"A Matrimonial Law Firm Dedicated to Professional Excellence"

The lawyers at Samuelson Hause & Samuelson are dedicated to professional excellence in obtaining outstanding results for their clients. With over 65 years of collective experience in litigating contested matrimonial and custody cases, the firm recognizes its professional obligation to be unstinting in their preparation, and zealous in the presentation of your case to the court. We are associated with outstanding health care professionals and forensic accountants who are expert in custody matters and the valuations of professional practices, business interests, and deferred compensation packages including stock options. We have extensive trial and appellate experience, and have been advocates for our clients to take creative and unique positions in the courtroom.

The importance of fault in matrimonial litigation has long since been replaced by a myriad of financial concerns affecting the family. Proceeding through a divorce is still an arduous task and emotionally stressful.

A client must be willing to develop patience and spend long hours in preparation in order to obtain a favorable result. To achieve this end, it is essential to have experienced focused attorneys who know this field and can manage the multi-faceted financial considerations that divorce and custody litigation requires. Lawyers who handle such matters must possess unique skills and sensitivity to achieve success.

Any person faced with ending marriage must be able to field a litigation team led by seasoned attorneys and include financial advisors, forensic experts and health care professionals. The attorneys at Samuelson, Hause & Samuelson, LLP are skilled negotiators and litigators who uniquely meet such requirements.

They are sensitive to the needs of their clients going through a divorce and are dedicated to professional excellence to achieve the best results. To discern the value of closely held businesses, stock options, licenses of professionals and the value of enhanced earnings of exceptional wage earners are today, the important aspects of divorce.

The days of private investigators barging into hotel rooms are long past. The courts tend to ignore fault. Instead, they focus on financial issues, attempting to value and distribute marital assets fairly, as well as fixing the proper amounts for maintenance and child support for a spouse or child.

Elliot D. Samuelson is one of New York's most respected and published matrimonial attorneys. He is included in the matrimonial lawyers' section of the elite publication, "The Best Lawyers in America," and has appeared on national and regional television and radio programs, including Larry King Live.

Mr. Samuelson has served as President of the New York Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the New York Family Court Inns of Court, as well as the chairperson of the Nassau County Bar Association's Matrimonial Law Committee.

He is editor of the prestigious Family Law Review for over two decades, which is published by the New York State Bar Association, and has been sought out as a frequent lecturer before bar groups and the general public. Mr. Samuelson's credentials include authorship of over one hundred professional articles dealing with subjects as diverse as evaluating stock options of business executives, measuring the enhanced earnings of non-degree and license holders, the impact of the loss of inheritance rights on property division, the dissipation of marital assets on an equitable distribution award, the loss of career opportunities of the custodial parent on the amount of support awarded and custody issues.

He is the author of the definitive legal treatise on motion practice Matrimonial Motion Practice in New York, which is at the very foundation of matrimonial litigation, the acclaimed Divorce Law Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Matrimonial Practice and Unmarried Couple's Legal Survival Guide. He serves as Editor of the New York State Bar Association's Family Law Review and served as the Editor of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' publication The Annual Survey of Matrimonial Law.

The late Vincent Balletta, Jr., an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division in New York, aptly described Mr. Samuelson:

"He is greatly respected by members of the profession and by jurists throughout the country as a highly skilled and accomplished matrimonial and trial attorney with exceptional knowledge in his chosen field."