Armin U Kuder - Family Attorneys: Washington DC

Kuder, Smollar & Friedman, P.C. offers over 100 years of experience in the practice of Family Law.

The firm, located in Washington D.C., represents clients in all areas of family law, including actions for Divorce, Child Custody and Support, negotiation of Property Settlement Agreements, Prenuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements, Enforcement and Modification of Court Orders, and other family related matters, such as taxes, wills, trusts and estate matters. The firm's attorneys are also qualified as mediators, arbitrators and are certified to practice Collaborative Family Law. Its members have been named in the Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and have been named in the Washingtonian's List of the Best Divorce Lawyers in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. The firm is AV rated by its peers in Martindale-Hubbell.

Fellow - American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Armin U Kuder
Kuder, Smollar & Friedman PC
1350 Connecticut Ave NW #600
Washington DC 20036
Tel: 202 331-7522
Fax: 202 331-0388
E-mail: AKuder@KSFlaw.com

PRACTICE-AREAS: Domestic Relations Law, Estate Probate, Professional Association Law, Mental Health Law, Civil Litigation.

Mr. Kuder has been in private practice since leaving the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy in 1963. In 1978, he began this firm. The firm has been practicing in the three jurisdictions of the Washington Metropolitan area since that time. Mr. Kuder has been active in a number of Bar activities. He was Trustee, and then Chairman of the Clients' Security Fund of the District of Columbia Bar between 1983 and 1991. He was the Chair of a Hearing Committee for the Board on Professional Responsibility from 1984 to 1990. He has been a member of the Domestic Relations Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the Family Section of the D.C. Bar. He was a member of the Task Force on providing representation for the poor in the Family Law Division, and continues to serve on Committees of the Public Services Activity Corporation of the D.C. Bar dealing with such matters. He is a member of the Maryland Bar Association, the Montgomery County (Maryland) Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the American Bar Association. Mr. Kuder has appeared in many high-profile cases at both the trial and appellate level.

Mr. Kuder is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial lawyers. He has lectured on various family law matters, including the role of taxes, bankruptcy and pensions in divorce. He has also presented programs on psychiatry and the law, and has co-authored an article in "Controversies in Managed Mental Health Care," A. Lazurus, M.D., editor (APA Press 1996). Since 1968, Mr. Kuder has been named in every article in Washington's leading Washingtonian Magazine, identifying leading family lawyers. He is also named in The Best Lawyers in America by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Woodward/White 1999).

Mr. Kuder has long been involved in community activities. He has held numerous positions in the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, and the national Foundation since 1973. In 1993 and 1994, he served as Chair of the Arthritis Foundation, and today is a Trustee Emeritus for International Affairs. Mr. Kuder was the first President of Arthritis and Rheumatism International, was Chairman of the National Health Agencies for the National Capital Area Council in 1977-1978 and Secretary of the combined Health Appeal of the National Capital Area. He now is a member of the International Steering Committee for the Bone and Joint Decade (2000 - 2010). He was formerly Chairman of the Board of the Center for Marine Conservation, and served as Chairman of the Board of Hyde School, Bath, Maine.