Lazar Schwartz & Jones LLP specializes in achieving outstanding outcomes for individuals relating to their marriage, divorce, and estate planning needs, while working in integrity with the client’s values. To resolve disputes respectfully and achieve positive and peaceful family reorganization, we offer Mediation, Collaborative Divorce and litigation services. We believe that all family matters require thoughtful, sensitive and thorough discussion and review before any action is taken and that the action should be one mutually adopted by the lawyer and their client.

Kathryn Lazar and Robert Schwartz each have over forty years of experience. Brett Jones has over twenty years experience having joined the firm in 2007 after working with one of the most respected matrimonial lawyers in Dutchess County for over ten years. Sherry A. Bishko joined the firm in 2025.  She divides her time between the firm’s main office in Hopewell Junction and its new office in New  Windsor, Orange County.  Sherry has more than twenty years’ experience and brings expertise to the firm that enhances the depth of support offered to our clients, including second-parent adoptions.  Randie L. Semel joined the firm Of Counsel in 2025.  Randie leads the firm’s estate planning practice with more than thirty-five years of experience.  Her expertise provides a perfect complement and enhances our ability to serve all aspects of our clients’ needs in-house, including wills, living trusts and health care related documents.