DRM Schoenberg Family Law Group:
An Experienced Family Law Practice Serving Vermont and New York

At Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC (DRM), delivering high quality legal services and personal attention to clients are our highest priorities. The DRM Schoenberg Family Law Group is dedicated to helping our clients effectively resolve matrimonial and family law matters. Whether you need calm discussion, vigorous negotiation or powerful litigation, our team offers the experience and skills to handle the simplest or the most complex cases with efficiency and diligence.

Utilizing a team approach to ensure prompt, personal attention and meticulous follow-through, DRM’s family law attorneys represent clients in a comprehensive range of matrimonial matters.

When you entrust us with your case, a lead attorney is assigned to manage it from beginning to end. For complicated cases that involve extraordinary issues or complex financial circumstances, we’ll assemble a team that may include other attorneys and paralegals. Focusing our resources and expertise enables us to stay current with the latest developments in this critical and rapidly evolving legal field and to deliver legal services efficiently and cost effectively.

DRM’s divorce lawyers understand that how matrimonial and family law issues are resolved has a lasting impact on children, finances and the ability of those involved to work successfully through difficult issues that may arise later.

Our experienced family law team delivers the particular mix of legal services your situation requires:

• providing advice and drafting and executing enforceable premarital and post-nuptial agreements to protect financial assets and to preserve family possessions
• handling all matters related to legal separation and divorce, from simple uncontested actions to contentious situations involving highly complicated financial arrangements
• offering knowledgeable, sensitive guidance regarding civil union rights and same-sex marriage dissolutions
• advising and representing our clients’ interests with regard to alimony and property settlement agreements, child custody and support, visitation rights and paternity
• representing clients in adoption, guardianship and other parentage matters
• handling post-divorce matters and appeals, including modification of orders
• taking actions to obtain Relief from Abuse orders for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence
• providing criminal defense in situations arising out of domestic matters

DRM’s family law team includes experienced trial attorneys who aggressively pursue litigation or negotiated settlements that best serve our clients.

Our attorneys have sharp legal skills, and we take pride in providing first-rate client service. It is our policy to respond rapidly to the needs of the client, to deliver services cost-effectively and to use computerized legal research tools and other technologies to enhance our ability to serve clients.

The DRM Schoenberg Family Law Group offers tools and information about family law matters in Vermont.

The DRM Schoenberg Family Law Group understands that knowing what to expect in the course of a legal matter can help ease your stress. We have compiled an overview for each area of concentration listed below to help you become better informed about how these family law matters are approached and to tell you more about how we work to meet client needs.

To assist you further, we’ve provided an optional checklist that can help you be prepared for the initial consultation and a child-support calculator tool.

Contact Us

To explore how the DRM Schoenberg Family Law Group can assist you, contact Practice Group Chair Debra Schoenberg at 802-864-3120 during business hours Monday through Friday.

Because we know that family law issues often can’t wait for convenient business hours, our 24/7 answering service can be reached during non-business hours at 802-860-8074. We respond promptly to messages left with the answering service.

The former Schoenberg & Associates law firm combined with Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC in November 2004. In addition to continuing to provide the highest level of individual service to family law clients, the Family Law Group has easy access to colleagues who can assist with issues involving real estate transactions, distribution of business assets, estate planning and taxation.

A full-service New England law firm

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is a full-service, regional law firm. As clients’ needs expand into other areas of law, the firm’s wide range of legal specialties and commitment to vigorous collaboration across practice areas can provide seamless, cost-effective legal representation.

Based in Vermont and New Hampshire, connected throughout the world

As the exclusive member firm for Vermont of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms, DRM has immediate entrée to more than 20,000 lawyers in 160 prominent and successful law firms with 560 offices in 99 countries. The firm’s association with Lex Mundi gives DRM’s clients the added benefits of access to local market knowledge and experience, relevant industry expertise, sound business and language skills and responsive service.