Personalized Family Law Counsel for Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County and Metro Detroit
Leveraging over 30 years of experience as a Michigan family law attorney, Lisa D. Stern provides personalized, sophisticated services to individuals seeking meticulous attention to their case and direct communication with counsel. She has established herself as a respected senior adviser by offering sage, strategic and compassionate counsel during the most difficult and significant times in a client’s life.
Based in Bloomfield Hills, Lisa accepts a limited number of cases, ensuring every client receives her direct attention and sustained involvement through the process. Her practice consists of high-net-worth individuals, C-suite executives, and community leaders focused on protecting their businesses, fortunes and futures
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Strategic Guidance For High-Stakes And Complex Cases
Lisa’s practice is positioned to handle the most complex and nuanced legal and financial issues in family law. She recognizes that the highest quality representation requires absolute confidentiality, disciplined efficiency and a comprehensive grasp of intricate financial landscapes. Her areas of practice include:
- Divorce: Ending a marriage, separating marital assets and debts, and determining spousal support
- Child custody and child support: Establishing parental rights and responsibilities in custody arrangements and ensuring financial care for minor children
- High-stakes child custody and prenuptial agreements: Negotiating difficult high-conflict custody considerations, as well as drafting enforceable prenuptial agreements to protect separate property, with a firm, results-oriented approach
- Professional athletes and entertainers: Proven experience representing local celebrities and athletes. Lisa is highly adept at managing the unique financial complexities of temporary or variable large incomes, endorsement assets, and the heightened need for discretion to protect public reputations.
- Gray divorce: Handling the unique stakes of later-in-life divorce after long-term marriages, specifically focusing on the division of substantial accumulated wealth, pensions, inheritances and trust assets
- LGBTQ+ family law advocacy: Providing inclusive leadership and dedicated representation for LGBTQ+ individuals and families
- High-stakes child custody: Navigating difficult, high-conflict custody considerations and prenuptial agreements with a firm, results-oriented approach
Experienced trial attorney Lisa believes in full-service, premium representation that produces a strategically advantageous outcome, without the trade-offs inherent in a high-volume law practice.
What Sets Her Practice Apart
Unlike high-volume practices, Lisa D. Stern takes on a carefully selected clientele, guaranteeing that each one receives dedicated, white-glove service. Your case benefits from regular, personal contact and individualized attention from an attorney who understands the tactical and emotional components of familial change.
- Extensive legal background: With over 30 years of Michigan family law experience and extensive courtroom experience since 1995, Lisa brings a sophisticated and authoritative approach to her work.
- Complex financial insight: She possesses deep knowledge of business valuations and complex asset division.
- High-profile client experience: Lisa has significant experience representing local celebrities, professional athletes and entertainers. She thoroughly understands the reputational stakes involved and adeptly faces the unique financial complexities of temporary or variable large incomes, all while maintaining extreme discretion.
- Peer-recognized excellence: Lisa is widely recognized for her legal excellence. She has received the Lawyer’s Weekly “Women of Law” Award in both 2021 and 2024, has been selected for the Michigan Super Lawyers list for nine consecutive years, starting in 2016. Additionally, she was recognized as “Best Divorce Attorney” by Hour Detroit Magazine, holds a perfect 10.0 Avvo rating and earned a Distinguished peer-review rating through Martindale-Hubbell*.
Virtual appointments are offered to her executive and high-profile clientele. Through a targeted, high-service model, Lisa can guarantee intelligent, beneficial results for clients facing complex issues that require a high degree of sensitivity and strategic knowledge.
Schedule Your Strategy Session
Dealing with a difficult, challenging and often significant family law case requires an attorney experienced enough to prepare your matter best and shield the interests of your family. Reach Lisa D. Stern at 248-973-7842 or by completing the online contact form.
*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer-review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.