Yesenia Rivera-Sipes

Yesenia Rivera-Sipes

Of Counsel

Yesenia Rivera-Sipes, Esq. graduated from Ithaca College Park School of Communications with a degree in Journalism in 1997. She graduated from The George Washington University School of Law in Washington, DC in 2001.

After law school Ms. Rivera-Sipes worked on Capitol Hill for the Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee before accepting a clerkship in the Essex County, New Jersey, Family Court. Upon completion of her clerkship, she worked for three years as a staff attorney at the New York City non- profit law firm, Lawyers For Children, where she represented children in the New York City Family Courts. Ms. Rivera- Sipes began practicing exclusively in the area of matrimonial law in 2007 and after working for several respected matrimonial firms in Manhattan, she started her own practice in 2013. She joined Karasyk & Moschella in January 2021, as of counsel to the matrimonial department. Ms. Rivera-Sipes lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.

Education:

• The George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C. J.D.,
• Ithaca College, Roy IL Park School of Communications, Ithaca, N.Y., B.A.

Bar Memberships:

• New York, 2003