Joel R. Brandes, of the New York Bar, practices law in New York and lives
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife Elizabeth. He is a noted authority and
expert on New York Family Law and divorce. In his law practice he is an advisor and counsel
to the legal profession in complex matrimonial litigation, trials,
appeals and international child abduction cases, and provides concierge legal
services to individual clients. He is the author of the treatise Law and The Family New York, 2d (9 volumes),
and Law and the Family New York Forms (5 volumes), both published by (Thomson Reuters). The New York Matrimonial Trial Handbook is available
in Bookstores and online in the print edition at the Bookbaby Bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads and other
online book sellers. It is also available in Kindle ebook editions and epub ebook editions for all ebook
readers. He
writes the annual updates to Law and the Family New York, 2d, and Law and the
Family New York Forms, 2d. He wrote Digest of Equitable Distribution
Cases, and Equitable Distribution Case Law, both published by the New York
State Bar Association and has been a contributor to several law books. Mr
Brandes has written and lectured extensively on family law and international
child abduction. He has authored
more than five hundred published articles that have appeared in legal journals.
For many years he authored “Law and the Family,” a regular monthly column in
the New York Law Journal. During that time, he co-chaired the Continuing Legal
Education Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Family Law
Section. In that capacity he moderated
and participated in more than 150 seminars. He wrote a quarterly column,
entitled Recent Decisions, Trends and Legislation, in the New York State Bar
Association, Family Law Review. He writes and publishes Bits and Bytes, ™ a
bi-monthly electronic newsletter for the New York divorce and family law bench
and bar, a website, New York Divorce and Family Law ( www.nysdivorce.com),
and two blogs, “New York Divorce and Family Law” (https://brandeslaw.blogspot.com/)
and “A Child is Missing: The International Child Abduction Blog”( https://joelbrandes.blogspot.com/).
Mr. Brandes was counsel in the landmark Court of Appeals cases of Morone v
Morone, Tucker v Tucker and McSparron v McSparron, and has more than 120
reported New York trial or appellate decisions.
He earned his J.D. at Brooklyn Law School and his LL.M. at New York
University.