Partner Profiles

SAMUELSON HAUSE & SAMUELSON, LLP is dedicated to professional excellence in successfully and efficiently achieving their clients' goals. Our senior partner, Elliot D. Samuelson, a past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), with forty years of experience, is a nationally recognized matrimonial attorney. Mr. Samuelson is a frequent lecturer, has written over one hundred professional articles in his field and authored four books that have become essential reading for practicing matrimonial attorneys as well as the general public. All of the partners are fully experienced and concentrate their practice in matrimonial and family law.

Elliot D. Samuelson is one of New York's most respected and published matrimonial attorneys. He is included in the matrimonial lawyers' section of the elite publication, "The Best Lawyers in America," and has appeared on national and regional television and radio programs, including
Larry King Live.

Mr. Samuelson has served as President of the New York Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the New York Family Court Inns of Court, as well as the chairperson of the Nassau County Bar Association's Matrimonial Law Committee.

He is editor of the prestigious Family Law Review for over two decades, which is published by the New York State Bar Association, and has been sought out as a frequent lecturer before bar groups and the general public. Mr. Samuelson's credentials include authorship of over one hundred professional articles dealing with subjects as diverse as custody considerations, grand parents rights to custody and visitation, evaluating stock options of business executives, measuring the enhanced earnings of non-degree and license holders, the impact of the loss of inheritance rights on property division, the dissipation of marital assets on an equitable distribution award, the loss of career opportunities of the custodial parent on the amount of support awarded and custody issues.

He is the author of the definitive legal treatise on motion practice Matrimonial Motion Practice in New York, which is at the very foundation of custody and matrimonial litigation, the acclaimed Divorce Law Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Matrimonial Practice an Unmarried Couple's Legal Survival Guide. He serves as Editor of the New York State Bar Association's Family Law Review and served as the Editor of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' publication The Annual Survey of Matrimonial Law.

The late Vincent Balletta, Jr., an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division in New York, aptly described Mr. Samuelson:

"He is greatly respected by members of the profession and by jurists throughout the country as a highly skilled and accomplished matrimonial and trial attorney with exceptional knowledge in his chosen field."

SAMUELSON HAUSE & SAMUELSON, LLP has developed a litigation team of highly skilled, caring experts in various disciplines to insure that each case is handled in an exemplary manner and our clients able to face the rigors of litigation as well as the emotional and financial demands that may be placed upon them. We strive to attain the best results under the unique circumstances of each case. Care is given to counseling and the planning necessary to meet post-divorce challenges.

RICHARD L. HAUSE

Admitted: 1980

Education: B.A. 1976, Wake Forest University (cum laude) J.D. 1979, Wake Forest University

Publications:

• Contributor to the Family Law Review, New York State Bar Association (1 994-present)
• "Non Durational and Permanent Maintenance," 1997 Annual Survey of Matrimonial Law, New York Family Law American Inn of Court
• "Securing and Determining Attorney's Fee in Matrimonial Actions," Family Law Review, New York State Bar Association (June 1994)

Lecturer:

• "The Complex Divorce Action," CLE Lecture given by National Business Institute
• "A Roadmap Through New York Divorce Proceedings,@ CLE Lecture given by National Business Institute

Media:

• Co-host of "The Divorce Law Forum" radio program
• Guest speaker on "You Should Know" radio program

Affiliations:

• Arbitrator, Unified Court System Domestic Relations Fee Arbitration Program
• Arbitrator, Unified Court System Domestic Relations Early Neutral Evaluation Program
• Member, Nassau County Bar Association Matrimonial and Family Law Committee
• Member, New York State Bar Association, Matrimonial and Family Law Committee
• Member, New York Family Law American Inn of Court Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

WENDY B. SAMUELSON
Admitted: 1994

Education: B.A. 1990 Brandeis University (magna cum laude, with honors in English and American Literature) J.D. 1993, Cornell Law School (Symposium Editor, Journal of Law and Public Policy) (Recipient of the National Association of Women Lawyers' Outstanding Law Graduate Award)

AUTHOR AND MEDIA
Hear Wendy Samuelson Discuss "What you need to know about divorce" in the Rain Makers forum.
Author of the column "Recent Cases and Trends" of the New York State Bar Association's quarterly Family Law Review (Summer 2002 - present) WTHE Radio, Co-host of "The Divorce Law Forum" (March 2001)
"1999 Legislation and Recent Decisions in Matrimonial Law," NYSBA's CLE: The Expanding World of the Matrimonial Lawyer
"1998 Legislation and Recent Decisions in Matrimonial Law," NYSBA's CLE: Matrimonial and Family Law Update
"Wasteful Dissipation of Marital Assets," New York Family Law American Inn of Court 1998 Annual Survey of Matrimonial Law (and 1997 Survey)
"How to Enforce Child Support," 1994 Nassau County Bar Association's CLE: Matrimonial Law Update

Affiliations: Member, Nassau County Bar Association Matrimonial and Family Law Committee
Member, New York State Bar Association Matrimonial and Family Law Committee
Member, New York Family Law American Inn of Court