Chapter I
The Money
Closely held businesses, professional practices, executive and equity compensation, trusts, real estate, and the tracing that decides what is marital and what is not.
Aaron Herzberg · Divorce Attorney · Greenwood Village
One lawyer. Your entire case. Start to finish.
Whether your divorce turns on a business, a house and retirement accounts, or the parenting plan for your children, the details decide the outcome. I handle the strategy, the negotiations, and the courtroom work personally, from the first call to the final order — and when a case needs outside specialists, I retain and direct them myself.
Experience
30+ years
Practicing law since 1995
Courtroom
70+ trials
Bench trials, first chair
Tax depth
LL.M.
Taxation, Georgetown, with distinction
Peer rating
AV
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent®
The practice
One lawyer, start to finish.
When you call
You reach me.
Not a call center, and not someone reading from your file.
When we meet
It's me, every time.
I know your case because I run it — with a small team behind me when a matter calls for it, never in front of me.
When it goes to court
I'm the one standing next to you.
The lawyer who built the file is the lawyer who tries it.
I keep the docket small enough to run personally, so every matter gets my full attention and a prompt answer. Fewer cases, handled properly. The lawyer you hire is the lawyer you get, from the first call to the final order.
Practice areas
Four kinds of questions. One way of working.
Thirty-seven areas of Colorado family law, grouped the way clients actually think about them. Start with yours.
Chapter II
The Children
Parental responsibilities and parenting time under Colorado's best-interests standard, support that reflects real income, and the hard cases: relocation and custody across state lines.
Chapter III
Agreements
Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements built to hold up — and, in the prenuptial work, drafted alongside the trust and estate-tax planning that protects family money for the long run.
Chapter IV
The Process & After
How a Colorado divorce actually moves: temporary orders, mediation and litigation, privacy, and what happens when an order has to be modified, enforced, or appealed.
How I work
An iron fist in a velvet glove.
Most divorces should settle, and the strongest settlements go to the side that is plainly prepared not to. So I prepare every matter as though it will be tried: the financial record built, the valuations tested, the weak points found before the other side finds them. If a courtroom does become necessary, you will have a lawyer who has spent three decades in them — firm, professional, respectful, and strategic.
Fit
Who I work for, and what to expect.
The work
- Divorces where a business, a professional practice, a home, or a real-estate portfolio has to be valued and divided
- Executives, professionals, and founders with stock options, RSUs, deferred compensation, or a practice to protect
- The spouse who didn't run the finances and needs the record built from the outside
- Parents in custody, parenting-time, relocation, and enforcement fights — the cases I fight hardest, and the ones that matter most
- Parenting plans for executives, physicians, and business owners whose calendars don't fit a standard schedule — and the parent on the other side of that case
- Inheritances and trust interests that have to be traced and defended, handled discreetly for families across Denver, the south metro, the foothills, and the resort towns
What to expect
- A paid first consultation that is a working session, not a sales call — the fee is quoted when you schedule, and you leave knowing what I would do first
- Me, start to finish: the lawyer you meet at the consultation is the lawyer at mediation and in court
- Rates in line with senior trial counsel in Denver, discussed plainly in that first conversation
- A plan for the first ninety days — disclosures, temporary orders, and a parenting schedule set on purpose, because the status quo the court sees at the start is the one it tends to keep
- In a custody case, preparation from the first order as if it were the trial — including your interviews with a CFI or PRE, which I prepare you for personally
- If the lowest fee is your priority, I'm probably not the right fit — and I'll say so on the first call rather than waste your time
About
Thirty years of preparing cases the same way.
I was admitted to practice in 1995 and spent the first seventeen years of my career as a founding partner of an Orange County, California divorce litigation firm that I helped build to thirty attorneys and staff. There I tried the divorces of executives, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and public figures: business valuations, executive compensation, assets traced across borders, the disputes where the financial record decides the case. Along the way I earned an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown, with distinction, which is why what a settlement is actually worth after tax is where I do some of my best work.
For the decade after that I sat on the client's side of the table, as general counsel to a company in one of California's most heavily regulated industries, closing real estate and corporate deals and litigating the partnership and business disputes that came with them. No law firm teaches what clients actually need from a lawyer; that did.
Now I practice from Greenwood Village. You work with me, start to finish, with a small team behind me when a matter calls for it; I keep the docket small enough that each matter gets senior attention, and because I own and run businesses and real estate myself, I read a balance sheet the way an owner does.
Seventy-plus bench trials have taught me what judges respond to and what they ignore. That is the judgment I bring to a settlement conference, a parenting plan, or a contested hearing.
- AdmittedColorado (Reg. No. 63178) · California · Wyoming · District of Columbia · Texas
- EducationLL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, with distinction · J.D., UC Hastings College of the Law
- RatingAV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell's highest peer rating for ethics and legal ability
- NetworkMember, ProVisors, Denver
What clients and colleagues say
In their words.
Thoughtful, creative, and steadfast when it mattered most. He protected my interests, helped me navigate tough decisions, and remained a trusted advisor from start to finish.”
Testimonials reflect individual experiences and do not predict results in any particular case.
Start
Start with a confidential conversation.
A consultation is a scheduled working session — in person in Greenwood Village or by video — in which we go through your situation and I tell you what I would do. It is a paid meeting, not a free call and not a sales pitch; my assistant quotes the consultation fee when you schedule. There is no chatbot here: the contact form and the phone both reach my office, my assistant reviews every inquiry personally, and the meeting goes on my calendar. Please hold the confidential details until we have run a conflicts check.
