View the Description Hide the Description Elizabeth F. Schwartz is currently in her tenth year of law practice. Also a certified family mediator, her firm treats the law as a therapeutic profession, helping clients protect their families and facilitating relationship dissolution with minimal investment of emotional and financial resources. Elizabeth's practice focuses on traditional and non-traditional families, estate planning and probate, as well as divorce and creative conflict resolution.
With an emphasis on addressing the unique legal needs of the gay community, Elizabeth lectures locally and nationally about the importance of gay couples protecting their loved ones through estate planning and contract. Her work also includes assisting with the legal aspects of adoption, insemination and surrogacy.
Elizabeth is a member of the Estate Planning Council of Greater Miami, the Probate and Guardianship Committee of the Dade County Bar Association and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar. She is also a founding member on the board of the Women’s Community Fund, raising money by and for South Florida’s lesbian community, and the Collaborative Family Law Institute, an organization reforming the divorce process.
Elizabeth is an AV Rated attorney, which is awarded by Martindale-Hubbell LexisNexis and identifies a lawyer with high legal ability, expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional experience.
For her years of service, Elizabeth was honored with the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce 2005 Community Award. A native of Miami Beach, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Miami, in 1997. A lefty and a Scorpio, she lives with her partner, Lydia Martin and their dog, Buttercup, in downtown Miami's urban core.
