STUART S. MEYER HAS BEEN LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW
IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY SINCE 1991

Stuart S. Meyer Divorce Attorney

Career Overview

Throughout his career, Stuart Meyer has helped hundreds of clients achieve their legal goals. He uses his legal expertise and proven litigation skills to his fullest advantage when negotiating a settlement on behalf of his clients, and when necessary, going to trial. His practice today specializes in the areas of Matrimonial and Family Law.

Stuart's academic accomplishments are extensive and include a Full-Tuition Fellowship and Graduate Assistant post during graduate school, a prestigious summer clerkship with Shanley & Fischer, P.C. during his second year of law school, and a judicial clerkship with one of New Jersey's top trial judges, who was ranked each year by the New Jersey Law Journal amongst the top ten judges in the state.

While a Visiting Specialist Professor at Stockton State College, Stuart Meyer taught several undergraduate law classes including Law and the Legal Process, Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties.

He is also an accomplished legal author, having published the New York Drunk Driving: Sanctions and Penalties for the American Law Institute-American Bar Association in 1997 (second edition published by Lexis Nexis in 2003), and in November 1996 having published an article for The New York State Bar Journal, entitled Abandoning Judicial Principles in DWI Cases: The Effects of People vs. Mills.

Stuart is a "Results Oriented" attorney. Examples include:

• Litigating and defeating six post-judgment custody and visitation petitions filed on behalf of father.
• Successfully litigating custody and child support petitions filed on behalf of actress/model mother.
• Successfully litigating post-judgment child support arrears petition filed on behalf of mother.
• Successfully litigating child custody action brought on behalf of father.
• Successfully litigating post-judgment action for support brought by wife.
• Litigating and defeating post-judgment spousal support action filed on behalf  of wife.
• Successfully litigating and settling a multi-million dollar marital estate in favor of the wife.

Professional Organizations

• Matrimonial Mentor, Pro Bono Clinic, New York County Lawyers Association
• Member, Matrimonial Law Section Committee, New York County Lawyers Association
• Member, Family Law Section, New York State Bar Association
• Former NYCLA Matrimonial Law Section delegate, New York County Inter-Bar Matrimonial Legislative Committee
• Former NYCLA Matrimonial Law Section delegate, New York County Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law

Education

The Penn State Dickinson School of Law - Carlisle, PA
Juris Doctor

Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
Masters in Public Affairs

Binghamton University – Binghamton, NY
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science