Julie M. Sheldon

COUNSEL

Julie M. Sheldon is counsel at Alter Wolff Foley & Stutman LLP. Julie’s practice includes all areas of family and matrimonial law including divorce, property distribution, child custody, parenting time, spousal support, child support, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.  Before practicing in this area of the law, Julie was an in-house attorney at JPMorgan Chase Bank, and a litigator at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, where she represented commercial clients in tax, securities, and insurance litigation.

Julie has extensive experience handling complex financial issues as well as complicated custody matters, including those where the child or children refused to spend time with a parent and where drugs, alcohol, and/or mental health issues are factors.  She has represented clients on both sides of such matters, helping to restore appropriate access to the child or children and to implement appropriate safeguards.  She has experience both resolving such matters outside of court, with the assistance of mental health professionals, and litigating other such matters before various courts throughout New York.

Julie’s practice also includes litigating and settling divorce actions involving high net worth families, business interests, professional practices, real estate holdings, and assets held in trusts.  She works with forensic accountants and business valuation experts to help her clients achieve a just resolution. 

Julie works closely with her clients to understand their particular legal, financial, and emotional goals.  She takes care to thoroughly explain the divorce process and various strategy options to her clients, and to answer all of their questions. 

As Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and the Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Matrimonial Law Committee, Julie participates in developing the standards and best practices in matrimonial practice and is continuously on the cutting edge of emerging areas and new developments in the field.