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Stephanie Lehman is here to help you sever your most intimate business partnership — your marriage. The matrimonial and family lawyer, a partner at Phillips Nizer LLPhas guided New York’s elite through the messy divorce process for over 20 years, but you probably know her as the attorney representing Marilee Fiebig in her split from former Good Morning America host T.J. Holmes.
The Cut spoke with Lehman about seeing couples through to the end of their marriages and her advice for those who want to make relationships work — including the importance of having uncomfortable conversations about finances before mismatched expectations spiral out into irreconcilable differences. When it comes to divorce, Lehman says, it takes “two to tango,” and while one spouse might be quick to blame another, when you dig deeper, you generally find that “both of them contributed” to the demise of