Michel Law serves individuals and families navigating high-net-worth divorce, estate planning, and private wealth matters — with the precision, discretion, and senior-level attention your situation demands.
All inquiries are held in strict confidence.
Fabrice K. Michel is the founder of Michel Law, where he represents clients in family and matrimonial law, estate planning and administration, and guardianship. Drawing on extensive experience at AM Law 200 firms — institutions renowned for their global reach and high-stakes matters — he delivers sophisticated litigation and transactional expertise, offering counsel that is precise, measured, and tailored to each client.
His clients work directly with him — not through layers of associates or paralegals — on the legal strategy, decisions, and advocacy that define their matter.
Michel Law serves individuals and families navigating matters of genuine consequence — those whose legal situations involve complex assets, high financial stakes, and the kind of personal sensitivity that demands an attorney of the highest caliber.
We are selective by design. Not every matter is the right fit for this firm, and not every firm is the right fit for every matter.
All inquiries are held in strict confidence. No obligation after an initial consultation.
Michel Law concentrates on the legal matters where financial stakes are highest and the consequences of inadequate counsel are most severe. Every engagement is handled personally by the attorney who sees it through.
Representation across the full spectrum of matrimonial matters, from amicable uncontested dissolutions to high-asset contested divorces involving business interests, trusts, and multi-jurisdictional assets. Custody representation in both Supreme Court and Family Court.
View Practice AreaRepresentation in contested estate matters before Surrogate's Court and Article 81 guardianship proceedings in Supreme Court, including will contests, compulsory accounting proceedings, kinship, and fiduciary disputes. Serving as court-appointed Court Evaluator and Guardian ad Litem under Part 36.
View Practice AreaConfidential planning and drafting services for individuals and families, including comprehensive estate plans, revocable and irrevocable trust structures, trust restatements, wills, powers of attorney, and ongoing private client representation.
View Practice AreaContested real property matters across the New York metropolitan area, including deed fraud actions, quiet title proceedings under RPAPL Article 15, partition actions, adverse possession defense, and mortgage discharge and clearing.
View Practice AreaMichel Law's scope is measured in counties covered, courts admitted to, and matters handled personally. Not in headcount or billable minimums.
Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Bronx, and Westchester. Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, and Family Court appearances across the New York metropolitan area.
Admitted to the New York State Bar, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Matrimonial. Estate planning and administration. Private client and wealth preservation. Real property litigation. A deliberately narrow scope that permits depth in each.
Fabrice K. Michel personally leads the strategy, decisions, and court work that define your matter, from consultation through resolution.
Michel Law exists because sophisticated legal matters deserve sophisticated counsel — and because clients with complex, high-stakes situations deserve to know exactly who is accountable for their outcome. I built this practice deliberately, around those two convictions. They have not changed.
All inquiries are confidential. No obligation to retain.