Brendan Hammer

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Profile

An experienced and creative courtroom litigator, Brendan works with and represents a wide variety of individuals, from executives, entrepreneurs, and medical, legal and creative professionals to political figures, professional athletes and their spouses or intimate partners. Brendan concentrates his practice on sophisticated family law matters including high-conflict custody disputes, complicated domestic and international child-relocation matters, the valuation and division of assets, complex compensation structures, spousal challenges to trust and estate plans and high net worth maintenance and child support. Brendan is also an AAML Fellow, a AAML Certified Arbitrator and Certified Mediator, and is a Board Certified Family Trial Law Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Brendan speaks, teaches, lectures, and publishes on various family law matters - including ADR, cross examination, discovery, evidence, the intersection of forensic psychology with family law, performance aspects of litigation, and trial techniques. Brendan also previously served on the Faculty of the  National Family Law Trial Institute. Brendan is frequently cited in mainstream media on divorce and family law matters, including in The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Languages Spoken: English

Practice Areas: Arbitration, Child Custody/Residence/Visitation/Contact, Child Support, Divorce, Emergency Procedures/Injunctions, Enforcement: Child Custody, Enforcement: Child Support, Enforcement: Property Division, Enforcement: Spousal Support, Finance: Property Issues, Mediation, Modification/Variation: Child Custody, Modification/Variation: Child Support, Modification/Variation: Property Division, Modification/Variation: Spousal Support, Parentage/Paternity, Pre-nuptial/Post-nuptial Agreements, Relocation/Removal from Jurisdiction, Spousal Support/Maintenance/Alimony

US Counties: Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, Will, McHenry

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