Elysa Greenblatt

The founder of Greenblatt Law LLC in New York City, Elysa Greenblatt focuses her practice exclusively on family law matters. She provides representation to clients throughout the metropolitan area who are facing the end of their marriages and who need assistance dealing with such divorce-related issues as alimony, child support, the division of assets and debts, and child custody and visitation. A seasoned and forceful courtroom advocate, Ms. Greenblatt is also experienced in mediation and collaborative law, and she often helps her clients reach an accord using those alternative dispute resolution methods.

Ms. Greenblatt has been appointed by Supreme and Family Courts in New York County to serve as Attorney for the Child for minor children of parents who are going through a divorce or custody dispute. She assists clients who are seeking to modify or enforce child support and custody orders as well. Other family law matters that Ms. Greenblatt has worked on include the preparation and review of prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements. Highly regarded by her fellow professionals for the ethical and sensitive manner in which she approaches these often-emotional cases, she has received an "Excellent" peer-review rating through Avvo.

Ms. Greenblatt majored in government at Smith College, and upon her graduation in 1997 she received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with high honors and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She then pursued her legal education at Boston College Law School and was awarded her Juris Doctor in 2000. After graduation, Ms. Greenblatt joined the New York City Law Department, where she served as an assistant corporation counsel, prosecuting juveniles in family courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan before entering private practice. She is admitted to practice before all New York state courts.