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Family Law Attorney Sarinia M. Feinman M. Feinman is a partner at the firm of Vetrano | Vetrano & Feinman, LLC in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Feinman was graduated from Widener University School of Law, and from the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Feinman was recognized by Pennsylvania Super Lawyer’s Magazine as a Rising Star in the area of Family Law from 2010-2018; and has been named as a Super Lawyer in the area of family law from 2019 to date; and was recently named as a Top Lawyer in the area of Family Law in Main Line Today, Philadelphia Life, and Suburban Life Magazines. While in law school, Ms. Feinman interned as a law clerk for the Honorable Barry C. Dozor of the Family Court Division of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Feinman is an active member of the Montgomery Bar Association (MBA), being the current Pesident of the MBA, President-Elect in 2021, Vice-President in 2020, Treasurer in 2019, Secretary in 2018, and a Past Chair of both the Family Law Section (FLS) in 2014 and Young Lawyers’ Section in 2009. Ms. Feinman previously served as a Director for a three-year term, and a four-year term on the Judiciary Committee. Ms. Feinman is currently a Zone 9 Delegate to the PBA House of Delegates, and she is currently serving her second three-year term on the Board of Managers of the Montgomery County Youth Center. Ms. Feinman is a Past President of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court in family law. She was previously the Zone 9 Co-Chair of the PBA Young Lawyers’ Division, and was one of the Regional Coordinators of the High School Mock Trial Competition and a member of the PBA Bar Leadership Institute class of 2010-11. Ms. Feinman served as a Council Member of the PBA Family Law Section for two separate three-year terms (2014-17 and 2009-12), and chaired the Programming Committee of the PBA FLS in 2013-14, and is currently the Co-Chair of the PBA FLS Membership Committee, since 2015. She is also a Collaborative Family Law Affiliate who is trained in the collaborative law approach to divorce, which focuses on severing the bonds of matrimony without severing the family.
Ms. Feinman served as the Pennsylvania Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Family Law Quarterly’s “Law in the 50 States” from 2004 through 2009. She is a frequent speaker, course planner, and author for various programs for PBI, PBA and MBA. Ms. Feinman has served as author, speaker and course planner for various programs, including the PBI and the PBA’s Representing a Special Needs Client in Family Law Cases, the PBI’s Issues for Divorce Over Fifty, the Chester County Bar Association’s What You Should Have Learned in Law School But Didn’t, and the Montgomery Bar Association’s A to Z on Business Valuations, Professionalism in Family Law, Hot Tips on What Family Law Practitioners Should Know in Other Areas of the Law, But Probably Do Not – Are You Committing Malpractice?, and A View from the “New” Family Court Bench. She frequently serves as a volunteer attorney for the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP), for which she represents abused children. Ms. Feinman has chosen to limit her practice to family law, with a special interest in custody relocation matters, children’s rights and, in particular, those of special needs children.
Family Law
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of New Jersey
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware, 2004
University of Pittsburgh, 2001
University of Wisconsin-Platteville,
Seville, Spain Study Abroad Program
The Honorable Barry C. Dozer, Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, Family Division, Law Clerk Intern
Pennsylvania Family Law Clinic, Widener University School of Law, Student Attorney
Jewish Community Center Kaiserman Branch, Wynnewood, PA., School Program Coordinator, 1993 – 2004
Temple Sinai Hebrew School, Pittsburgh, PA., Teacher, 1998 – 2001
Fluent in written and spoken Hebrew
Proficient in Spanish
Vetrano | Vetrano & Feinman LLC is a law firm in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania that practices in the areas of family law and civil appeals.
The firm’s family law practice extends throughout eastern Pennsylvania. This area includes the Philadelphia Main Line (Merion, Narberth, Gladwyne, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Villanova, St. David’s, Radnor, Wayne, Strafford, Devon, Berwyn, and Paoli) and the communities of Newtown Square, Malvern, Valley Forge, and Phoenixville. The counties covered include Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery, and Northampton—whose county seats are, respectively, in Reading, Doylestown, West Chester, Media, Lancaster, Allentown, Stroudsburg, Norristown, and Easton.
The firm’s civil appeals practice is throughout Pennsylvania.
See list of honors, awards and published works.
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2019-2021
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – Rising Star for Family Law, 2010-2018
Main Line Today Top Lawyer – 2017, 2018, 2020
Suburban Life/Philadelphia Life Magazine – Top Attorney, 2016, 2017
Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers in PA by the American Society of Legal Advocates (ASLA), February 2016
Pennsylvania Bar Association Bar leadership Institute, Class of 2010-11
Committee of the Year of the Montgomery Bar Association as President of the Young Lawyers Section, 2009
Sarinia Feinman Published Works
Listed below are the published works of PA family attorney Sarinia Feinman:
Case Notes: In RE Estate of Paul J. Sauers, III, PBA Pennsylvania FAMILY Lawyer, October 2009
Family Law Templates, Pleadings, and Case Law, What You Should Have Learned in Law School But Didn’t, Chester County Bar Association, April, 2008
Selected Cases to Illustrate Representing a Disabled Client with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Issues, Representing a Special Needs Client in Family Law Cases, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, July, 2008
Selected Cases to Illustrate Representing a Disabled Client with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Issues, Representing a Special Needs Client in Family Law Cases, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, December, 2007
Case Notes: In RE D.K. & W.K., PBA Pennsylvania FAMILY Lawyer, October, 2007
Equitable Distribution Case Law Update, Equitable Distribution Update, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, December, 2006
Practicum, Ethical Tax Crimes?: A look at the Effect of Ethics, Tax Law, and Criminal Law on the Practice of Family Law, Montgomery Bar Association, November, 2006
Case Notes: Wang v. Feng, PBA Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Summer, 2006
Equitable Distribution Case Law Update, General Practitioner’s Update, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, June, 2006
Law in the 50 States, American Bar Association Family Law Quarterly, Pennsylvania Reporter, Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008
Generation YL: County Bar Associations Want You, The Legal Intelligencer, September, 2005 (quoted)
New QDRO Costs to be Factored in Divorce: Practice Pointer, PBA Pennsylvania FAMILY Lawyer, April, 2005
Passport Nightmares Created By Support Arrearages: Removing Impediments Can Be An Impediment, Pennsylvania Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Practice Section News, Winter, 2005
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See list of professional associations and memberships.
Montgomery Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA)
Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court (family court), 2005-present
Pennsylvania High School Mock Trial Competition
Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP) attorney, representing children in both child custody and protection from abuse cases where allegations of abuse exist, 2008-present
Collaborative Family Law Affiliates (trained in the Collaborative Law method), 2006-present
American Bar Association, 2001-04
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See list of classes/seminars taught.
Speaker at the 2017 PBI Family Law Institute, April 2017
Speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section Winter Meeting, January 2017
Moderator in Presentation to Montgomery Bar Association’s Women in the Law Committee, April 2016
Course Planner of all programs. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section, Summer Meeting. Cambridge, MD, July 2014
Speaker and Course Planner. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section, Summer Meeting. Cambridge, MD. Plenary Session: Custody Mock Trial – Act I, July 2014
Course Planner of all programs. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section, Winter Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2014
Speaker and Course Planner. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section, Winter Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. Detecting Deception, Jan. 2014
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Speaker and Author. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section. Pittsburgh, PA. Equitable Distribution Case Law Updates, Jan. 2013
Speaker and Course Planner. Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Pittsburgh, PA. The Second Season: Issues for Divorce over Fifty, Oct. 2012
Speaker. American Bar Association, Family Law Section. Philadelphia, PA. Plenary Session – Financial and Other Hot Tips from the Experts, Oct. 2012
Speaker. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section. Hershey, PA. Case Law Updates, July 2012
Speaker and Course Planner. Toby L. Dickman Family Law Seminar of the Montgomery Bar Association. Norristown, PA. HOT TIPS on What Family Law Practitioners Should Know in Other Areas of the Law, but Probably do Not – Are You Committing Malpractice?; AND A View from the “New” Family Court Bench, Nov. 2010
Speaker. Professionalism Now. Montgomery Bar Association in Norristown, PA. Opportunities for Professionalism in Family Law, Dec.2009
Speaker and Course Planner. Toby L. Dickman Family Law Seminar of the Montgomery Bar Association. Norristown, PA. An A to Z on Business Valuations, Oct. 2008
Speaker. Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Pittsburgh, PA. The Second Season: Issues for Divorce over Fifty, Sept. 2008
Speaker. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section. Baltimore, MD. Representing a Special Needs Client in Family Law Cases, July 2008
Speaker. Chester County Bar Association. West Chester, PA. What You Should Have Learned in Law School But Didn’t, Apr. 2008
Speaker and Course Planner. Mock Trials of the Family Law Section of the Montgomery Bar Association. Norristown, PA. An A to Z on Mock Trial Scoring and Criminal Issues, Feb.2008
Speaker and Course Planner. Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA. Representing a Special Needs Client in Family Law Cases, Dec. 2007
Speaker and Course Planner. Practicum of the Family Law Section of the Montgomery Bar Association. Norristown, PA. Representing Clients Under a Disability: Addressing Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues in Family Law Cases, Nov. 2007
Speaker. Pennsylvania Bar Association, Family Law Section. Pittsburgh, PA. Equitable Distribution Case Law Update, Jan. 2006
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Our experienced family lawyers take the time to fully understand the financial and emotional complexities that can be involved in separating two lives. We offer the patience and resources to effectively guide clients through a divorce, addressing all the challenges they may face in moving forward with their lives. To learn more about how we can help protect your rights and interests in a complex divorce, contact the Pennsylvania divorce attorneys at Vetrano | Vetrano & Feinman LLC.