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PRACTICES / DIVORCE & FAMILY LAW

The same fight, for your family.

Contested divorce, prenuptial agreements, custody - the posture that wins criminal trials, applied to the fights that decide your home and your children.

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★★★★★1,100+ FIVE-STAR GOOGLE REVIEWS
SUPER LAWYERS · 2020-25AVVO · “SUPERB”SECOND GENERATION · SINCE 1976
AS SEEN ON NETFLIX · CNN · FOX NEWS · NY POST
50+
YEARS, COMBINED
1100+
FIVE-STAR REVIEWS
1976
SECOND GENERATION, SINCE
Acquitted.
$26M MONEY LAUNDERING
Dismissed.
RICO · 10-YEAR MINIMUM FACED
Six months.
$12M PONZI · YEARS ASKED
ALL RESULTS →

One firm, both fights.

50+ YEARS COMBINED · NATIONWIDE
01 · THE STAKES
Everything you built, on the table

Assets, custody, support, the home - a contested divorce puts all of it in play at once. The outcome shapes decades. It deserves trial-grade preparation, not form-filling.

02 · HOW THESE CASES START
It rarely starts calmly

Papers served, accounts frozen, accusations made. Early moves set the terms of everything after - who stays, who pays, and where the children sleep. Call before you respond.

03 · HOW WE FIGHT
Negotiate hard, try harder

Most family cases settle - and settle better when the other side knows you will actually try the case. We prepare every matter as if it goes to a judge, because sometimes it should.

What we handle.

EVERY MATTER BEGINS WITH A FREE CONSULTATION
01 Contested divorce When the terms cannot be agreed, they get decided - by negotiation or by a judge. We prepare for both.
02 Prenuptial & postnuptial agreements Agreements that hold - drafted, negotiated, and when necessary, challenged.
03 Custody & parenting time The fight that matters most, handled with force and discretion.
04 Support & maintenance Child support and spousal maintenance - calculated right, argued hard, enforced.
05 Equitable distribution Businesses, real estate, retirement accounts - valued properly and divided fairly.
06 Post-judgment enforcement When orders are ignored - contempt, enforcement, and modification proceedings.
DON'T SEE YOUR SITUATION? IT'S LIKELY WE'VE HANDLED IT.
Describe your case →

The questions everyone asks first.

ALL QUESTIONS, ANSWERED →
Q.01
How long does a contested divorce take?

Months to years, depending on what is actually contested. Early strategy compresses timelines: the cases that drag are the ones where the first moves were wrong.

Q.02
Who keeps the home?

It depends on title, contributions, children, and negotiation leverage. The home is usually the biggest asset on the table - do not concede it by default.

Q.03
Do prenups actually hold up?

Properly drafted, disclosed, and executed - yes. Rushed, coerced, or hiding assets - no. Which is why both drafting and challenging them is real legal work.

THE STANDARD
Loyalty to only you - it was written for this fight too.

We owe loyalty to only you. Strategy starts the day you call, and every client holds the senior partner's cell number.

Start with the free consultation
The counsel table
FIG. - ACROSS THE TABLE
The Spodek Law Group bench

The team on your case.

EVERY ACCEPTED CASE GETS THE WHOLE BENCH · 24/7
Meet the bench →
Todd A. Spodek
MANAGING PARTNER
Todd A. Spodek
The Netflix defense · Fox & CNN analyst
Ralph P. Franco, Jr.
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
Ralph P. Franco, Jr.
Court appearances · case strategy
Alex Zhik
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
Alex Zhik
Criminal defense · client strategy
Jeremy Feigenbaum, working the file
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
Jeremy Feigenbaum
Motions · investigations
Claire Banks
ASSOCIATE
Claire Banks
Federal motions · S.D.N.Y. & E.D.N.Y.
Joseph Alter
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY
Joseph Alter
Trial practice · not guilty on all counts, 2025
RB
OF-COUNSEL
Rajesh Barua
Immigration · removal defense
CL
OF-COUNSEL
Chad Lewin
Los Angeles · 23+ years
50+ years combined
Second generation, since 1976. Selective by design - loyal to only you.
PUT THEM ON YOUR CASE →
Inside Spodek Law Group - the firm film
THE FIRM FILM · 00:45 · WHO WE ARE
ALL OF TODD'S APPEARANCES →
HERE'S WHY THIS FIRM
When the biggest cases break, the press calls this firm.
APR 2026Quoted on the AP wire as the defense voice on the SPLC federal indictment MAY 2025"My Advice to Diddy" - authored commentary in The Spectator 2022Inventing Anna dramatizes Todd's defense - #1 most watched on Netflix

How your case unfolds.

THE FULL PROCESS →
01 · TODAY
The consultation

Risk-free, in person or by phone. Ask anything, for as long as it takes. Strategy starts the same day.

02
Investigation & evidence

Witnesses, reports, footage, experts - building the record that pokes holes in theirs.

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Motions, negotiation - or trial

Suppress, dismiss, negotiate from strength. And if trial is the advantage - we are unafraid.

★★★★★VERIFIED CLIENT · FEDERAL CASE · 2022 · VIA GOOGLE REVIEWS
"The best lawyer anyone could ask for. Todd changed our lives."

"By the time our free consultation was over with Todd, we left his office at ease. All our questions were answered and we had a sense of relief."

1,100+ FIVE-STAR GOOGLE REVIEWS →
THE FIRST 24 HOURS
01You call. A person answers - not a service. 02Free, confidential consultation - ask anything. 03Same-day strategy on every accepted case. 04You hold the senior partner's cell number.
HOW A CASE UNFOLDS →
WHY PEOPLE CALL US FIRST
Selective by design. Loyal to only you.

We take the clients we can truly help - and every accepted case gets the whole bench, 24/7. The consultation is free, confidential, and answered within 24 hours, guaranteed.

FROM THE RECORD · S.D.N.Y. & BEYOND
Acquittal$26M money laundering
DismissedRICO - 10-year mandatory minimum
6 months$12M Ponzi - prosecutors asked for years
THE FULL RECORD →
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Answered within 24 hours, guaranteed. Some stories are better told out loud -

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AFTER YOU REACH OUT
01A person answers - not a service. Day or night. 02Free, confidential consultation - ask us anything, regardless of how long it takes. 03Strategy starts the same day - and you hold the senior partner's cell number.
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