About Karen M.
Karen M. Jansen earned her law degree from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2000 after completing a Bachelor of Arts in Human Communications at Hunter College in 1991. She moved from a liberal arts background into legal training at a time when family law and court-appointed representation were becoming more complex. Her education laid a practical foundation; the law degree came at the start of a two-decade plus career in New York courts.
She is admitted to practice in New York and has maintained a practice that intersects family court work and litigation involving financial issues. Early on she took roles that placed her in assigned counsel systems. She now serves on the Lawyers for Children Panel for the Appellate Division, Second Department. She also sits on the 18-B Family Court Panel, where assigned representation is provided in juvenile and family matters. Records indicate she has held professional membership since 2000 and has remained active in panels that assign counsel in sensitive family and appellate matters.
Jansen holds a certification as a Certified Financial Litigator from the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators. That credential signals an additional qualification in cases where financial complexity factors into custody, asset division, or support disputes. Her work has included representing children in appellate proceedings, handling assigned family court matters, and addressing financial questions that arise in domestic-relations litigation. Her courtroom work has involved both trial-level family court appearances and appellate filings tied to child welfare and family law issues.
She operates a private practice under the name Law Office of Karen M. Jansen, Esq. The office accepts assignments through the panel systems while also taking private matters that reflect the overlap of family law and financial dispute resolution. Clients and colleagues encounter a lawyer experienced in the procedures of family court and in the particular demands of appellate practice for children's representation. Her current practice focuses on family court proceedings, appellate representation for children, and financial aspects of litigation.
