Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
• Child Custody and Visitation
• Premarital Agreement
• Guardianship
• Spousal Support

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  A: If your marriage is genuine and in good faith, you have not had significant problems in your U.S. immigration history or criminal law convictions with seriously negative immigration consequences, you may be able to get green card (lawful permanent or conditional U.S. resident) status. There are two different processing routes, the adjustment of status route and the consular processing route, that may be available to you. The adjustment of status route involves the processing of applications and the scheduling of an interview for you and your spouse while you remain in the U.S. The consular processing route culminates in an immigrant visa interview at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate outside the U.S. Note that in some cases, even if you have overstayed your temporary visa status in the U.S., you may still remain eligible to apply for adjustment of status; in other cases, that will not be possible. This answer is a simplification; reliable case planning requires a discussion of more details than can be given in a summary answer.
• Drug Crimes
  Obtaining relief from removal for a client convicted of drug possession: Steve was able to petition the Attorney General directly in a novel procedural move that bought the case time for favorable changes of law by the Attorney General and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to take effect. Those changes enabled Steve to keep his client’s lawful permanent resident status and avoid removal from the U.S. The foregoing case highlights, and the content of this web site generally, are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be and should not be relied upon as legal advice. To be effective and reliable, legal advice must be tailored to the specific facts and relevant law pertaining to each individual case, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in other cases.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Steve graduated Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1988, and Yale (where he was a Directed Studies honors program student) with a B.S. in Biology in 1976. He worked for several years in New York City, Hartford, Connecticut and Morristown, New Jersey, in firms ranging in size from six to forty attorneys and in areas such as Customs Law, Corporate Law, Taxation, and Trusts and Estates. He opened his own practice in 1990, handling entertainment law, and general business agreements. He began concentrating in immigration law in 1994. His current practice is limited to immigration law and estate probate and administration.
• Business Disputes
• Trade Secrets

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization
• Business Immigration
  Gone are the days of immigration law 'business as usual.' Since 1997, Congress and immigration agencies have implemented sweeping changes in U.S. immigration law, many of them sweeping. Moreover, immigration enforcement authorities have recently become more aggressive in initiating removal proceedings - and sometimes detention - in certain cases, while in the business immigration area visas (such as H-1B and H-2B) have presented aliens and their would-be employer sponsors with severe quota-based timing issues and inconsistent governmental decision-making. These days, in order to provide legal services in this area of law, a lawyer must possess strong research, analytical, advocacy and planning skills and the willingness to navigate in an increasingly changeable legal landscape.
• Removal Defense
  Immigration & Naturalization Law: 25 years of experience representing immigrants on employment-based & family-based petitions and applications, removal defense, asylum applications, applications seeking U.S. citizenship status, appeals to Federal courts

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Nila M. Pusin, before retiring from the practice of law, handled probate, estate administration and estate litigation matters for the firm. Before joining the firm, she gained experience in estate litigation matters during her seven years of work as an associate at the firm of Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin (formerly Gern, Dunetz, Davison & Weinstein) in Roseland, New Jersey.
• Trusts
  Steven A. Sklar obtained his early working experience as an associate in corporate and trusts and estates law at the forty-lawyer firms in Hartford, Connecticut and Morristown, New Jersey. There, he handled estate administration matters, estate planning matters,corporate and estate tax matters and disputes, and drafted agreements involved in the establishment of corporations and other collaborative ventures. He also handled customs law matters for Rode & Qualey in New York City as a summer associate.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  In addition to lending a certain amount of color to his biography, these experiences have given him firsthand working knowledge of the entertainment business. Combined with his general corporate and tax law backgrounds, this knowledge enhances his ability to help clients needing legal work in film, TV, publishing, CD-ROM and other entertainment industries.