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Cohen Stine Kapoor: The Times Square Matrimonial Firm Whose Founding Partner Was Profiled in an HBO Documentary

At a Glance

Founded by	Harriet Newman Cohen and Martha Cohen Stine, with partner Ankit Kapoor (per the firm)
Focus	Matrimonial and family law exclusively (per the firm)
Office	11 Times Square, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10036 (Manhattan)
Signature results	No published itemized settlement table; documented representation of high-profile clients in contested matrimonial and custody matters (see Track Record)
Distinctive edge	Founding partner Harriet Newman Cohen was among those involved in shaping New York’s equitable distribution law and held state and city commission appointments
Fee model	Not published on the firm’s site; prospective clients should confirm directly
Known for	High-net-worth and high-conflict divorce, custody, and celebrity/public-figure representation (per the firm)

Origin and Background

In 2026, Bloomsbury Academic published a memoir by one of this firm’s founding partners — not a legal treatise, but a personal account titled Passion and Power: A Life in Three Worlds. That founder, Harriet Newman Cohen, had already been the subject of a three-part HBO documentary, Nuclear Family, which followed her representation of a lesbian couple in a custody dispute with a sperm donor who asserted parental rights — a case Cohen guided to a precedent-setting resolution. Cohen Stine Kapoor LLP, the Manhattan boutique she co-founded with Martha Cohen Stine and now leads alongside partner Ankit Kapoor, operates from 11 Times Square, and its physical New York City office was confirmed against the firm’s own site.

What Makes This Firm Structurally Different

Cohen Stine Kapoor is not a general-practice firm with a family law department; it is a boutique built exclusively around matrimonial and family law, and its founding partner’s institutional history in the field runs deeper than most competitors’. Per the firm, Cohen was appointed by then-Governor Mario Cuomo to New York’s Child Support Commission and by Mayor David Dinkins to the New York City Foster Care Commission, later served as President of the New York Women’s Bar Association, and sits on the New York County Matrimonial Advisory Committee and the Family Law Section Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association. That combination — policy-level involvement in the law the firm now practices, paired with an active trial and mediation practice — is the firm’s clearest differentiator.

Practice Areas

• Contested and uncontested divorce
• High-net-worth asset division
• Child custody and visitation, including cross-jurisdictional disputes
• Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
• Spousal and child support
• Mediation (Cohen is a certified mediator, per the firm)
• Same-sex parentage and assisted-reproduction custody disputes

Track Record

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published, itemized table of settlement or custody outcomes for Cohen Stine Kapoor, which is standard in matrimonial practice given the confidentiality that typically attaches to family court proceedings and negotiated settlements. Per the firm’s own attorney biography, Cohen has represented Tom Brady, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the former wives of Harvey and Bob Weinstein, opera singer Isabel Leonard, Howard Stern’s former wife Alison Stern, actor Laurence Fishburne, actress Linda Lavin, singer Ute Lemper, NBA player Paul George, and Paralympic gold medalist Steve Serio, among other clients; Awesome Attorneys has not independently verified the outcomes of these specific representations beyond the firm’s own account and, in the case of the sperm-donor custody dispute, contemporaneous coverage of the HBO documentary depicting it. Past results in any matter do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published set of itemized, attributed client reviews for Cohen Stine Kapoor across major consumer review platforms as of this profile’s research date, consistent with a high-net-worth, referral- and reputation-driven practice rather than one built on volume consumer marketing.

Beyond the Courtroom

Cohen sits on the Board of Directors of the Lotos Club, a New York cultural club founded in 1870 whose early members included Mark Twain; she chaired its Music Committee and received its Medal of Merit. She also serves on the board of the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation, which organizes the New York International Piano Competition and Young Artists Series, and is a former board member of the New York City Opera. Cohen is also a co-founder of the Brooklyn Law School Women’s Leadership Circle.

Recognition

Cohen holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, a peer-review-based rating reflecting the highest tier for legal ability and ethical standards. She has been listed among Super Lawyers’ “Top 50 Women” and “Top 100” attorneys in the New York Metro edition, a peer-nomination and independent-research-based list, distinct from pay-to-play marketing placements. Crain’s New York Business named her to its “Notable Women in Law” list in both 2023 and 2026. New York does not maintain a board-certification system for family law comparable to Texas’s TBLS or Arizona’s Board of Legal Specialization, so Awesome Attorneys does not apply “specialist” language to any New York family law attorney on that basis.

New York Legal Backdrop

New York has been a no-fault divorce state since 2010: under Domestic Relations Law § 170(7), either spouse may seek divorce by swearing the marriage has been irretrievably broken for at least six months, though the case isn’t final until equitable distribution, support, and custody are resolved. New York divides marital property by equitable — not automatic 50/50 — distribution under DRL § 236(B)(5), weighing statutory factors including the length of the marriage, each spouse’s income and health, and non-financial contributions to the marriage. Spousal maintenance follows a statutory income-based formula under DRL § 236(B)(6), and child support follows the Child Support Standards Act (DRL § 240(1-b); Family Court Act § 413), which sets a percentage of combined parental income — 17% for one child, 25% for two, 29% for three, scaling upward for more. None of this is legal advice; a specific divorce, custody, or support matter should be evaluated by a licensed New York attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Cohen Stine Kapoor’s clearest differentiator is institutional: a founding partner with a documented history shaping the same equitable distribution framework she now litigates under, paired with a client roster of high-profile, high-net-worth individuals who require discretion as much as trial skill. The honest trade-off is that this is not a volume practice built for a straightforward, low-asset uncontested divorce — the firm’s own marketing is explicitly oriented toward complex, high-conflict, and high-net-worth matters, its fee structure isn’t published, and Awesome Attorneys could not locate an independent, itemized outcomes record to weigh against the firm’s own account of its client list. For a New York City resident facing a high-asset or high-profile divorce or custody dispute who needs a firm with genuine institutional standing in matrimonial law and the discretion that comes with representing public figures, that combination is a reasonable basis for a shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Cohen Stine Kapoor’s own website, including its attorney biography pages for Harriet Newman Cohen; the firm’s published awards and press documentation, including its posted Crain’s New York Business features; and Martindale-Hubbell and Super Lawyers rating information as referenced on the firm’s own site.

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