PRACTICE FOCUS
Rawan zealously represents her clients while tending to each client's individual needs. She prides herself in providing compassionate representation to all of her clients. Rawan has focused her practice on all matrimonial and family law matters. By employing a holistic approach in her matters, Rawan has become a trusted resource for all of her clients’ needs including those unrelated to family law. Her practice is dedicated to clients with complex family law needs in both New Jersey and New York especially those involving complex financials, business valuations, contested custody matters and/or interstate jurisdictional dispute.
Rawan offers both in-person and video conference consultations, and her practice includes but is not limited to:
- Divorce/ Dissolution of marriage/ Annulment
- Alimony/Maintenance
- Equitable Distribution/ Property Distribution
- Dissipation of Marital Assets
- Custody/Parenting Time/Visitation
- International, Interstate and Domestic Custody Disputes
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Postnuptial Agreements
- Child support/college contribution
- Emancipation
- Cohabitation
- Retirement
- Mediation
Prior to Offit Kurman, she was a partner at a boutique matrimonial firm where her time was devoted exclusively to complex matrimonial law-related cases. Rawan served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the lead dissolution (divorce) judge, the Honorable James B. Convery, J.S.C. (retired), in one of New Jersey’s highest volume counties, Essex County, from September 2007 through August 2008. She received her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2007, where she interned at the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice, Family Law Clinic, having attended law school specifically to pursue the practice of Family Law.
She was admitted into the New Jersey State Bar and the United States District Court, District of New Jersey. She was also admitted to the New York State Bar. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association, the Essex County Barry I. Croland Family Law Inns of Court, and Bergen County Bar Association.
Rawan was also appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a member of both the New Jersey Supreme Court Family Practice Committee (from 2013 to present) and the District Ethics Committee (served in District XIII from 2013 through 2019).
Rawan continues to volunteer her time by providing pro bono legal services to under-served litigants and is an active member of Volunteer Lawyers for Justice. She also volunteers her time as a panelist in Essex County in support of the Matrimonial Early Settlement Program.
She has been included in the New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star list published by Thomson Reuters every year consecutively from 2012 through and including 2022. Ms. Hmoud has also been awarded the Top Ten Family Law Attorney Award (under the age of 40) by the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys, Inc. in 2015 and 2018, was named by New Jersey Monthly as one of the Top Attorneys in 2017, New Jersey’s Outstanding Young Lawyers, for 2014 and Top Ten Attorney Award (under the age of 40) by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys for 2016-2018.
RECOGNITIONS
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, Pro Bono Spotlight, October 2022
- Rising Star, New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2012-2022
- Top Attorney, New Jersey Monthly
- Top Ten Family Law Attorney Award (under the age of 40), National Academy of Family Law Attorneys, Inc., 2015 and 2018
- Top Ten Attorney Award (under the age of 40), American Institute of Family Law Attorneys, 2016-2018
- New Jersey’s Outstanding Young Lawyers, 2014
*Selected from 2012 consecutively through 2022 to be included in the New Jersey Super Lawyers (Rising Star) list published by Thomson Reuters based on peer review and other achievement-based factors. Not approved by New Jersey Supreme Court.* American Institute of Family Law Attorneys is not approved by the New Jersey Supreme Court.