Lawyer Overview
Ms. Hiltzik is Counsel in the Firm’s Matrimonial and Family Law Department. She brings valuable experience as a litigator and mediator and is committed to helping her clients to reach resolutions through mediation, settlement and, if necessary, litigation.
With care and compassion, Ms. Hiltzik has represented and counseled clients enmeshed in a wide range of family law matters involving divorce, legal separation, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, parenting agreements, custody, visitation, guardianship, international child abduction, child support, protective orders, paternity and child protective actions.
Ms. Hiltzik began her legal career as an attorney for the New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) where she prosecuted child abuse and neglect proceedings in Family Court on behalf of the Commissioner of ACS. She then practiced as an attorney for children at The Children’s Law Center and went on to serve as a Co-Director of its Bronx office. Thereafter, Ms. Hiltzik joined Segal & Greenberg LLP, a boutique matrimonial and family law firm, as a litigator and mediator, representing clients in a breadth of family matters.
Ms. Hiltzik is a New York certified marital and divorce mediator. She is also trained and certified in Parenting Coordination.
Awards & Accomplishments
Recipient of the 2017 Positivity Award, Children’s Law Center
Recipient of the 2014 Merit Award, Children’s Law Center
Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Divorce Mediation, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, June 2005
Outstanding Intern, Institute for Public Affairs, Grant Recipient: Sotheby’s, Barnard College, May 2002
Presentations, Lectures & Teaching Experience
The National Association of Counsel for Children’s 37th National Child Welfare, Juvenile and Family Law Conference, “Boys Don’t Cry: Interviewing Techniques to Build Rapport with Boys to Talk about Difficult Issues”
National Children and the Law Conference, “Boys Don’t Cry: Interviewing Techniques to Build Rapport with Boys to Talk about Difficult Issues”
Safe Horizon 2nd Biannual Conference, “Domestic Violence as Seen Through the Eyes of a Child”