Atty. Kenneth A. Gordon
As a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Marital and Family Law, Kenneth A. Gordon serves as the Head of Brinkley Morgan’s Family Law Department.
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Kenneth A. Gordon is a family law attorney based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, practicing at Brinkley Morgan. Admitted to practice in Florida, The Florida Bar. Educated at University of Miami School of Law (J.D., 1997) and Florida State University (BS, 1983). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Family Law (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Awards: (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell (2026). Serands clients in Fort Lauderdale, FL and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- As a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Marital and Family Law, Kenneth A. Gordon serves as the Head of Brinkley Morgan’s Family Law Department
- With 20 years of legal experience, he focuses his practice on handling complex family law matters, including dissolutions of marriage, alimony, parental responsibility and timesharing disputes, business valuations, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, equitable distribution, adoption, domestic partnership agreements, appeals and all other family law related matters
- An active member of the community, Mr. Gordon is a member of the Palm Beach and South Palm Beach County Bar Associations, is past Chair of The Florida Bar’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee “I,” and is a member and past Chair of the Family Law Section of the Broward County Bar Association
- He also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Broward Partnership for the Homeless
- AV Preeminent® rated by Martindale-Hubbell, Mr. Gordon has received numerous recognitions, including: “Top Lawyers in South Florida” by South Florida Legal Guide from 2004 to 2012 and 2014 to 2019
- “Florida Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers Magazine every year since 2011, Super Lawyer’s “Top 100” in Florida in 2018, and “Top 100” in Miami from 2016-2019
- “Leader of Distinction” by Florida Weekly in 2014
- and The Best Lawyers in America® since 2016
- As co-creator of the seminar “Sunbathing on the Molten Banks of Hell: A Divorce Survival Guide,” Mr. Gordon has lectured extensively before legal groups and published numerous articles on a variety of family law topics
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Practicing law in Florida. Legal matters in Florida are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in Fort Lauderdale are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate Florida state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in Florida brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in Florida courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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