Jennifer Dumin

Jennifer Dumin, a partner with the firm, has over 15 years’ experience handling all aspects of family law. She has a special focus on meeting the specific needs of the LGBTQ+ community. Jennifer is a highly skilled and experienced family law practitioner who is committed to helping her clients comprehend, confront, and resolve their legal challenges. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America and by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for her work as a family law attorney, and by the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania for her exemplary pro bono service as a lawyer for Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent.

Practice Areas

Amending Vital Records, Child Custody and Support, Divorce and Dissolution, Family Law Mediation, Premarital Legal Planning, Adoption

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Education

• Juris Doctor, Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Master of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
• Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University

Honors and Affiliations

Jennifer has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America and by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for her work as a family law attorney, and by the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania for her exemplary pro bono service as a lawyer for Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent.

Jennifer stays connected to her social work background by serving as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Therapy Center of Philadelphia, a community-based mental health non-profit that offers financially accessible, racially equitable, trans affirming services to over 350 women, transgender, and gender non-confirming clients annually.

Jennifer volunteers as a mentor for new family law attorneys through the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Nicholas Cipriani American Inn of Court. Additionally, she has served as a mentor to high school students through the Philadelphia Graduation Coach Campaign and through the Attic Youth Center, which serves LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia and the surrounding communities.

As a law student Jennifer received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Pursuit of Justice” Award for Legal Writing, and the Henry J. Richardson III Award for best paper on International Human Rights. Throughout the over 15 years since graduating from law school, she has continued to write and lecture on a variety of issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community.

Publications

Dumin, Jennifer. “A Matter of Life and Death: A Message to My Fellow White Attorneys.” Philadelphia Bar Reporter, July 21, 2021.

Dumin, Jennifer. “So, how are you really doing? Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Web blog post. BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, June 10, 2020.

Dumin, Jennifer. “Hooray for (Revisionist) Hollywood.” Web blog post. BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, May 15, 2020.

Dumin, Jennifer. “The Prom (Netflix) vs. Happiest Season (Hulu) – Queer-friendly Holiday Entertainment.” Web blog post. BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, December 23, 2020.

Dumin, Jennifer. “Gender Markers Still Miss the Mark.” Online Family Law Column, The Legal Intelligencer, Reprinted with permission to BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, October 6, 2016.

Dumin, Jennifer and Shapson, Lisa. “Paternity and Parentage in Same-Sex Marriages.” Family Law Supplement, The Legal Intelligencer, Reprinted with permission to BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, July 14, 2015.

Dumin, Jennifer. “What Did I Commit To: A Celebration or a Marriage?” Online Family Law Column, The Legal Intelligencer, Reprinted with permission to BKW Blog, BKW Family Law, September 14, 2015.

Jennifer Dumin. “Superstition-Based Injustice in Africa and the United States: The Use of Provocation as a Defense for Killing Witches and Homosexuals.” Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, Vol. 21, 2006 at 145-174.