2025 Family Law Symposium
Date: Jan 25, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick
Member Price: $263.00
Non-Member Price: $329.00
Section Price: $247.00
Event Code: I014425
Areas of Law: Family
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Faculty
Keynote
Moderator
- Rita M. Aquilio, Esq.
- Lawrence Law, Watchung
- John P. Paone, Jr., Esq.
- Paone Zaleski & Murphy, Red Bankis a Diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) with 40 years of experience in the practice of family law. He is the Senior Partner of Paone, Zaleski & Murphy with offices in Woodbridge and Red Bank, where he limits his practice to high asset, high net worth and complex divorce, family law and custody matters. He is an AAML approved arbitrator.
Mr. Paone is a past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) Family Law Section, a past President of the AAML New Jersey Chapter, and a past President of the Middlesex County Bar Association. He has been appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to several committees relating to the practice of divorce and family law. He has served as Chair of the Supreme Court Board on Attorney Certification and as a member of the Board on Continuing Legal Education. The NJSBA appointed Mr. Paone Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Continuing Legal Education. He is a past member of the NJSBA Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee which evaluates every candidate for judicial appointment or reappointment to the Supreme Court, the Superior Court, and as county prosecutor. He served as 2018-2019 Co-Chair of the Monmouth Bar Association Family Law Committee and serves as a member of that Committee.
The 1996 recipient of the NJSBA Distinguished Legislative Service Award and the 2010 recipient of the ICLE Distinguished Service Award, Mr. Paone was in the first class of attorneys to be Certified by the Supreme Court as a “Matrimonial Law Attorney.” An Editor Emeritus of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, he is a frequent writer and lecturer on family law issues and has made television appearances on Court TV and other programs. In 2002 the NJSBA Family Law Section awarded Mr. Paone its Tischler Award for his contributions to family law practice and the legal profession. Since 2017, he has served as a Master of the Aldona E. Appleton Family Law American Inn of Court.
Mr. Paone received his B.A., with honors, from Rutgers College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review. - Jeffrey Fiorello, Esq.
- Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook
- Sheryl J. Seiden, Esq.
- Seiden Family Law, LLC, Cranfordis the founding Partner of Seiden Family Law, LLC in Cranford, New Jersey. She is a seasoned matrimonial lawyer, having practiced family law exclusively since January 2000. Prior to forming Seiden Family Law, Ms. Seiden was a Partner at a boutique law firm in Summit, where she practiced family law for thirteen years.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Seiden is Past Chair of the Family Law Section Executive Committee (“FLEC”) of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a Trustee of the Association. She is a past Co-Chair of the Young Lawyer Family Law Subcommittee for FLEC, and has been a member of FLEC since 2008. An officer and Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers– New Jersey Chapter (“AAML-NJ”), Ms. Seiden has served on the Board of Managers for several years and is slated to be sworn in as the President of AAML-NJ in June 2024. She is also a member of the Union and Essex County Bar Associations. In November 2014 Ms. Seiden argued as amicus curiae for AAML in Gnall v Gnall before the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She has been an Early Settlement Panelist for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Family Part, Union County, and has been asked to serve as a blue-ribbon panelist on several occasions by the Early Settlement Panel for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Family Part, Essex County.
Ms. Seiden has moderated and spoken on many panels for the Family Law Symposium on topics involving creative support awards, child support, emancipation and special needs trusts, alimony issues, legislative issues affecting family law, and reexamining relocation laws. She has also been a speaker at the Friday night program for the Family Law Symposium on several occasions. Ms. Seiden is co-author of Marriage, Divorce and Dissolution (Gann Publishing, 2019, now in its 3rd Edition). She often lectures and educates junior lawyers and paralegals on how to prepare Case Information Statements, and has also lectured on the relocation laws in New Jersey as well as parental alienation.
Ms. Seiden received her B.A., cum laude, from American University and is a magna cum laude graduate of New York Law School, where she served as the Managing Editor of the New York Law School Law Review. - Cheryl E. Connors, Esq.
- Tonneman & Connors, LLC, Eatontownis a Partner in Tonneman & Connors, LLC with offices in Eatontown and East Brunswick, New Jersey. She concentrates her practice in family law, with an emphasis in issues of divorce, child custody, visitation, child support, equitable distribution, palimony, adoption, paternity, domestic violence, prenuptial agreements and collaborative divorce. In 2016 she appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the New Jersey State Bar Association in the matter of In re Adoption of a Child by J.E.V.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Ms. Connors is Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, a member of the NJSBA’s Solo and Small-Firm Section, has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Family Practice Committee for the 2017-2019 and 2019-2021 terms, and is serving on the Committee for the 2021-2023 term. She is also a member of the Middlesex County and Monmouth Bar Associations, and the Collaborative Divorce Professionals of New Jersey. She serves as a Matrimonial Early Settlement panelist in Middlesex County and as an Intensive Settlement Panelist in Monmouth County.
An Associate Managing Editor of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, Ms. Connors has authored and co-authored numerous articles which have appeared in the New Jersey Family Lawyer and has been published in Divorce Magazine’s Frequently Asked Questions feature. She was the 2013 recipient of the Martin S. Goldin Family Law Award from the Middlesex County Bar Association and frequently lectures on family law topics.
Ms. Connors received her B.A., with distinction, from Cornell University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was a senior member of the Seton Hall Law Review and received the Raymond del Tufo, Jr. Award. She served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Barry T. Albin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
(8/23) - Megan S. Murray, Esq.
- The Family Law Offices of Megan S. Murray, Holmdel
- Robert A. Epstein, Esq.
- Manzi Epstein Lomurro & Decataldo, West Orange
- Christine Fitzgerald, Esq.
- Seiden Family Law, Cranford
- Stephanie Lomurro, Esq.
- Manzi Epstein Lomurro & DeCataldo, LLC, West Orangeis Managing Partner of Manzi Epstein Lomurro & DeCataldo, LLC in Montclair, New Jersey, where she concentrates her practice in family law and is also a R. 1:40 Mediator.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Lomurro is a member of the New Jersey State, Essex County, Hudson County and Union County Bar Associations, and has been a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Committee, where she is a former Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Subcommittee. She has been a Trustee of the Hudson County Bar Association and an Early Settlement Panelist in Hudson and Union Counties. A member of the District IV (Hudson County) Ethics Committee, she is a Trustee of CASA of New Jersey and an Associate Editor of The New Jersey Family Lawyer (published by the New Jersey State Bar Association).
Co-author of Litigation Technology for the Modern Practitioner, Ms. Lomurro has lectured for ICLE, the Justice Virginia Long Family Law American Inn of Court and the New Jersey Association for Justice. She has also completed the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Family Law Trial Advocacy Program and was a member of the inaugural class of the New Jersey State Bar Association Leadership Academy.
Ms. Lomurro received her B.A. from Drew University and her J.D. from New York Law School. She was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sallyanne Floria, Assignment Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County (now retired).
(8/23) - Jenna Shapiro, Esq.
- Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader, P.C., Lawrenceville
- Cassie Murphy, Esq.
- Paone Zaleski & Murphy, Red Bank
Presenters
- Hon. Gary Potters, J.S.C.
- Joseph M. Casello, Esq.
- Collins Vella & Casello LLC, Manasquan
- Jeralyn L. Lawrence, Esq.
- Lawrence Law, LLC, WatchungCertified as a Matrimonial Law Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is the Managing Member and founder of Lawrence Law in Watchung, New Jersey. She practices in all areas of matrimonial and family law including divorce litigation, mediation and arbitration, custody and parenting time issues, alimony and child support, separation and property settlement agreements, adoption and guardianship advice, domestic partnership matters under the Domestic Partnership Act, domestic violence and sexual abuse, and palimony. She is also a trained collaborative lawyer and divorce mediator, and has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the New Jersey chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), Ms. Lawrence is President of the Academy’s New Jersey Chapter and has been certified by the AAML as a Family Law Arbitrator. She is also a volunteer attorney with the New Jersey State Bar Military Legal Assistance Program, which provides pro bono legal assistance to New Jersey residents who have served overseas or in active duty of the armed forces after September 11, 2001. Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association, she is Past Chair of the NJSBA Family Law Section, has served as a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and is Past President of the Somerset County Bar Association. Ms. Lawrence has served on the District XIII Attorney Ethics Committee and has been a member of the New Jersey Association for Justice, the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association, the New Jersey Collaborative Law Group, the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM) and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, she was appointed to the Somerset County Domestic Violence Working Group as a Representative of the Somerset County Family Law Section and has also been a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the American Bar Association. She serves on the Matrimonial Certification Committee that oversees the statewide matrimonial attorney certification process and has been an attorney volunteer at Safe+Sound Somerset.
Ms. Lawrence is a frequent lecturer at divorce and family law programs and has been a senior editor of the New Jersey Family Lawyer. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) and a member and Barrister of the Central New Jersey American Inns of Court. Ms. Lawrence is a recipient of the Young Lawyers Division Professional Achievement Award, the Carol Murphy Award bestowed by the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey, and is a 3-time recipient of the Annual Legislative Recognition Award from the New Jersey State Bar Association. She is also the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Woman in Somerset County from the Somerset County Commission on the Status of Women, the 2009 Kean University Distinguished Alumna award and the Saul Tischler Award from the NJSBA Family Law Section in 2023.
Ms. Lawrence received her B.A. from Kean University and her J.D., summa cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law. While in law school, she was awarded the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ Award in addition to serving as the Student Director of the Family Law Clinic. - Hon. Jodi L. Rosenberg, J.S.C.
- Superior Court Judge
Family Division, Essex County - Robin C. Bogan, Esq.
- Pallarino & Bogan LLP, Parsippany
- Mercedes Diego, Esq.
- Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook
- Amanda S. Trigg, Esq.
- Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook
- Hon. Daniel H. Brown, J.S.C.
- Middlesex County
- Matheu D. Nunn, Esq.
- Einhorn Barbarito Frost & Botwinick PC, Denville
- Hon. Hany A. Mawla, P.J.A.D.
- Appellate Division, Part C
- Scott R. Malyk, Esq.
- Meyner and Landis, Newark
- Jhanice V. Domingo, Esq.
- Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., Hackensack
- Derek M. Freed, Esq.
- Ulrichsen Rosen & Freed LLC, Penningtonis the Managing Partner of Ulrichsen Rosen & Freed LLC in Pennington, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in matrimonial and family law.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Mr. Freed is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section and was a co-author of the Association’s amicus curiae brief to the New Jersey Supreme Court on the matters of Gnall v. Gnall and Bisbing v Bisbing. He is a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist in Mercer and Somerset Counties.
The recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association Distinguished Legislative Service Award in 2023, Mr. Freed serves as an Associate Managing Editor of the New Jersey Family Lawyer and his articles have appeared in the magazine. He has lectured on family law matters for ICLE, the New Jersey State and Mercer County Bar Associations, and the New Jersey Association for Justice.
Mr. Freed received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and his J.D., with honors, from Rutgers School of Law-Camden. - Maritza Rodriguez, Esq.
- Rodriguez Law Firm LLC, Newark
- Megha R. Thakkar, Esq.
- Hill Wallack LLP, Princeton
- Thomas DeCataldo, Jr., Esq.
- Manzi Epstein Lomurro & DeCataldo, LLC, West Orange
- Eileen S. King English, Esq.
- King English Immigration Law LLC, Freehold
- LaDonna M. Cousins, Esq.
- Williams Law Group, LLC, Short Hills
- Alexandra M. Freed, Esq.
- Ulrichsen Rosen & Freed LLC, Pennington
- Amanda M. Yu, Esq.
- Drisgula Divorce & Family Law, Wayne
- George Veitengruber, Esq.
- Veitengruber Law LLC, Wall
- Kaitlyn A. Lapi, Esq.
- Hagan, Klein & Weisberg, LLC, Cedar Knolls
- David Politziner, CPA
- EisnerAmper LLPis a Partner in the Financial Advisory Services Group of EisnerAmper LLP in the firm’s Iselin, New Jersey, office. With more than 35 years of experience serving as a technical resource in litigation actions, he provides expert advice and testimony for plaintiffs and defendants in areas including business valuations, damage assessments, lost profit calculations, matrimonial matters, shareholder disputes, malpractice matters and the sale or purchase of businesses. He has also been appointed by judges in several counties to act as an expert witness in these matters and to issue reports for the court on these cases.
A Certified Public Accountant in New Jersey and New York, Mr. Politziner is Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is a member of the AICPA and the New Jersey and New York State Societies of Certified Public Accountants, Past President of the Hunterdon/Warren Chapter of the NJSCPA and a Charter Member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Foundation’s Forensic & Business Valuation Division. He is a frequent presenter for ICLE and other professional and civic organizations, and is often quoted by local newspapers and business publications.
Mr. Politziner received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. - Stefanie Jedra Sollecito, CPA/APV, ASA, CFE
- Cg Tax, Audit & Advisory, Tinton Fallsis a Director in the Advisory Services Practice of Marcum LLP in the firm’s Roseland, New Jersey, and New York City offices. She appraises business interests and provides related forensic accounting, litigation support, and other consulting services to business owners, legal counsel and high-net-worth individuals.
Ms. Jedra is a Certified Public Accountant in New York State and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)and the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants, and Vice President of Marketing for the New York Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA). She has lectured for ICLE, the Camden County Bar Association and AAML’s New Jersey Chapter, and she is the author and co-author of articles which have appeared in Valuation & Litigation Advisor.
Ms. Jedra received her BSBA from Bucknell University and was also a member of the Student Managed Investment Fund.
(8/23) - Kevin J. Baldwin, CPA, ABV
- Partner, Forensics, Valuation & Litigation Support Group Leader
DLA, LLC, Shrewsbury - Judith A. Deer, Esq.
- President and Founder, All Pro QDRO, LLC, Livingston
- Paul Sobol
- Appraiser, Sobol & Associates, Inc., Chester
- Seth M. Weintraub, Esq.
- Kemeny, Ramp & Renaud, LLC, East Brunswick
- Megan A. Sartor, CPA, ABV, CFF
- Sax LLP, Parsippany
- Emily Urrico, Esq.
- Lawrence Law, LLC, Watchung
- Susan Miano, CPA, APV, CFF
- Marcum LLP, Philadelphia
- Judy Doyle, CPA, APV
- Advisory, Withum+, Red Bank
- Michael Klein
- Realtor, Liberty Realty, Hoboken
- Michael A. Saponara, CPA
- Stout, Risius, Ross, LLC
On Jan. 25, join hundreds of family law attorneys, judges, paralegals and other related professionals at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick for New Jersey’s premier family law event – the 2025 Family Law Symposium! Reserve your seat today to hear thought-provoking and insightful presentations from many of the state’s leading lawyers and judges, and to network with colleagues and other family law professionals.
This year’s theme is the intersection of family law with other practice areas. No one practices family law in a vacuum. Issues in tax law, estate planning, immigration, bankruptcy, the LGBTQ community and real estate all often come into play in family law cases. This day will focus on the issues family law attorneys need to know in those areas to provide the best possible representation to their clients. It also includes the topics that you depend on, such as the top 10 reported and unreported cases of the previous year, and a panel presented by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).
Don’t miss out on New Jersey’s top family law event featuring compelling and timely discussions!
Program Agenda:
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9:00 | Introduction - Jeffrey Fiorello, Esq.
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9:05 | Top 10 Reported Cases - John P. Paone, Jr., Esq.
- 9:40 | Taxes and Finance
- Moderators: Robert A. Epstein, Esq. and Megan S. Murray, Esq.
- Presenters: Hon. Daniel H. Brown, J.S.C.; Kevin J. Baldwin, CPA, ABV; Alexandra M. Freed, Esq.; Matheu D. Nunn, Esq.; David Politziner, CPA and Amanda S. Trigg, Esq.
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10:50 | Break
- 11:00 | Wills and Post Divorce Considerations
- Moderator: Jenna Shapiro, Esq.
- Presenters: Kaitlyn A. Lapi, Esq.; Michael A. Saponara, CPA and Seth M. Weintraub, Esq.
- 11:20 | Immigration
- Moderator: Christine Fitzgerald, Esq.
- Presenters: Hon. Gary Potters, J.S.C.; Eileen S. King English, Esq.; Scott R. Malyk, Esq.; Maritza Rodriguez, Esq.; Sheryl J. Seiden, Esq.; Stefanie Jedra Sollecito, CPA/APV, ASA, CFE; Megha R. Thakkar, Esq. and Amanda M. Yu, Esq.
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12:10 | Lunch
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1:00 | Top 10 Unreported Cases
- Moderator: Stephanie Lomurro, Esq.
- 1:35 | AAML Presentation
- Moderator: Sheryl J. Seiden, Esq.
- 1:55 | Bankruptcy
- Moderator: Cheryl E. Connors, Esq.
- Presenters: Hon. Hany A. Mawla, P.J.A.D.; Robin C. Bogan, Esq.; Joseph M. Casello, Esq.; LaDonna M. Cousins, Esq.; Jhanice V. Domingo, Esq.; Susan Miano, CPA, APV, CFF and George Veitengruber, Esq.
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2:45 | The Obergefell Decision Ten Years Out – How Equal is Equal
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3:05 | Break
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3:15 | QDRO’s and Retirement Assets
- Moderator: Rita M. Aquilio, Esq.
- Speakers: Judith A. Deer, Esq.; Megan A. Sartor, CPA, ABV, CFF and Emily Urrico, Esq.
- 3:35 | Real Estate
- Moderator: Cassie Murphy, Esq.
- Presenters: Hon. Jodi L. Rosenberg, J.S.C.; Thomas DeCataldo, Jr., Esq.; Mercedes Diego, Esq.; Judy Doyle, CPA, APV; Derek M. Freed, Esq.; Michael Klein; Jeralyn L. Lawrence, Esq. and Paul Sobol -
4:25 | Wrap Up
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4:30 | Adjourn
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