Alan Dubow

Divorce Mediator | Collaborative Attorney | Divorce • Custody • Parenting • Complex Financial Matters

Westchester County, New York | Serving Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland & Orange Counties and New York City
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Professional Overview

Alan M. Dubow is a Westchester County-based divorce mediator and collaborative attorney with more than four decades of experience handling sophisticated matrimonial, family law, and litigation matters throughout New York.

Admitted to practice law in New York since 1981, Mr. Dubow brings extensive matrimonial, litigation, trial, appellate, negotiation, and dispute resolution experience to the mediation process. His background enables him to help parties understand the legal and financial issues underlying their disputes, realistically evaluate risk, identify settlement opportunities, and work toward practical resolutions outside the courtroom.

Over the past decade, Mr. Dubow has increasingly focused his practice on divorce mediation, collaborative law, and alternative dispute resolution, applying decades of courtroom experience to help individuals and families reduce unnecessary conflict, limit litigation exposure, and maintain greater control over important family and financial decisions.

His experience with high-conflict and high-stakes matrimonial matters provides valuable perspective when mediating disputes involving divorce, child custody, parenting, support, equitable distribution, and complex financial issues.
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Divorce Mediation & Family Conflict Resolution

Mr. Dubow helps couples and families resolve divorce and family disputes privately, constructively, and efficiently outside of traditional litigation.

He mediates matters involving:

• Divorce and matrimonial disputes
• High-conflict divorce
• Child custody and parenting disputes
• Parenting plans and co-parenting agreements
• Child support
• Spousal support
• Equitable distribution and asset division
• Complex financial divorce disputes
• Family conflict resolution
• Post-divorce disputes
• Pre-litigation disputes
• Court-referred mediation

His mediation practice is particularly well suited for parents seeking child-focused resolutions, professionals and executives concerned about privacy, families seeking to reduce conflict, and couples who want greater control over the outcome of their divorce rather than leaving important decisions to the court.

Mr. Dubow recognizes that divorce and family disputes involve more than legal questions. Financial pressures, emotional stress, communication breakdowns, parenting concerns, and long-term family relationships can all affect the parties' ability to reach agreement.

His goal is to help parties move beyond adversarial positions and identify realistic, informed, and sustainable solutions.
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Child Custody & Parenting Matters

Mr. Dubow has extensive experience with child custody, parenting agreements, co-parenting disputes, and other family-related conflicts.

These matters may involve:
• Parenting schedules
• Parenting plans
• Co-parenting communication
• Custody disputes
• High-conflict parenting matters
• Child-focused settlement planning
• Family transition issues
• Post-divorce parenting disputes

His approach emphasizes respectful communication, structured negotiation, child-centered problem-solving, and practical parenting solutions designed to reduce conflict and promote greater long-term family stability.
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Collaborative Divorce

As a collaborative attorney, Mr. Dubow also helps clients pursue divorce resolutions through a structured, non-adversarial process centered on communication, transparency, problem-solving, and negotiated settlement.

Collaborative divorce can allow parties to resolve sensitive family and financial issues privately while maintaining greater control over their decisions and reducing the emotional and financial burdens associated with contested litigation.

His collaborative experience is particularly relevant in matters involving parenting disputes, complex financial issues, high-conflict relationships, and long-term family concerns.
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Litigation, Trial & Appellate Experience

Mr. Dubow's mediation perspective is informed by decades of litigation experience.

Before concentrating more extensively on mediation and collaborative law, he handled sophisticated matrimonial, commercial, civil, and real estate matters throughout New York.

His experience includes:
• Matrimonial and divorce litigation
• Family law and domestic relations matters
• Child custody disputes
• Financial and property division matters
• Complex commercial litigation
• Real estate disputes and transactions
• Trial advocacy
• Appellate advocacy before the First and Second Departments

He has substantial courtroom experience involving matters in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Counties and New York City.

This litigation background provides an important perspective in mediation: Mr. Dubow understands what can happen when settlement is not achieved. He uses that experience to help parties realistically evaluate legal risk, litigation costs, uncertainty, settlement alternatives, and potential long-term consequences when considering resolution.
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Mediation Philosophy

Mr. Dubow believes many family disputes can be resolved more effectively through informed negotiation, respectful communication, and structured mediation rather than prolonged and emotionally draining litigation.

His approach emphasizes:
• Practical and efficient resolution
• Informed decision-making
• Party control over outcomes
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Constructive communication
• Reduced emotional and financial strain
• Durable, workable agreements
• Forward-looking solutions

Drawing on decades of matrimonial and litigation experience, he works to help parties resolve disputes with dignity, stability, and a practical focus on the future.