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• Catherine A. Ross

Law Firm Overview

Providing personal legal representation and mediation services for clients who seek practical and effective counsel in Mercer, Burlington, Middlesex, Hunterdon and Monmouth counties.

Catherine A. Ross is an experienced attorney licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with admission in the federal courts for both jurisdictions, limiting her practice to mediation and litigation of New Jersey divorce and family issues, and consumer bankruptcy.

She has represented fathers and mothers in successful residential custodial actions as well as split or shared custodial arrangements, working with clients toward arrangements that benefit their children. Her business background assists her in formulating and negotiating realistic property distributions and financial arrangements including tax and liquidity considerations. She has worked with experts in custody, property valuation, pensions, occupational employability assessment, and mediation.

Her professional memberships include the Academy of Family Mediators, the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators, the New Jersey State Bar Association, Family Law Section and Bankruptcy Section, the Mercer County Bar Association, family and solo/small firm sections. As a panel member of the Mercer County Matrimonial Settlement Program for many years she has assisted litigants and their attorneys in the resolution of their disputes prior to trial. She has lectured at Mercer County Community College and Trenton State College.

She graduated from Washington State University in Business Administration in 1972, earning admission to Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies. Her Juris Doctorate in Law was granted by Temple University in 1978.

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Articles by Law and Mediation Office of Catherine A. Ross:

• Current Developments in New Jersey Family Law
• Current Developments in New Jersey Family Law II
• New Jersey Marital Name Change FAQs
• New Jersey Mediation FAQs
• New Jersey Residency Requirements FAQs
• New .Jersey Tax Questions FAQs
• Recession Divorce Checklist
• Test Your Mediation Potential: Are you a good candidate for mediation?

Catherine A. Ross's experience, reputation, and ability relevant to performing professional services in connection with this matter can be illustrated as follows:

Catherine's practice has been predominantly matrimonial since being admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1978. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Family Law Section, the Mercer County Bar Association, and has been a productive member of the Matrimonial Early Settlement Panel in Mercer County since 1992. She has a Very High Peer rating through Martindale Mubbell (BV) for many years. She is an Accredited Professional Family Mediator (APM), recognized by the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators as having met their training and experience standards for accreditation.

Her most recent published article "Recession Divorce Checklist" for clients facing financial hardship during and after divorce appears in the NJAPM Fall 2008 Newsletter and is also published in the associations annual conference book "Mediation 2008 - A 360 Degree View."

Areas of Practice

• Child Support
• Custody & Visitation
• Divorce

Published Works

• Recession Divorce Checklist, NJAPM Newsletter (and Annual Conference Book), Vol.13, No.1, 2008
• Tax FAQs Separation and Divorce, New Jersey Lawyer, Vol.15, No.2, 2006

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, Mercer County Community College, 1984 - 1985

Pro Bono Activities

• Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist for New Jersey Superior Court in Mercer County, 1992 - Present

Representative Cases

• Reegan v. Reegan, App. Dv. 1999 (326 N.J. Super. 289 1999)

West Practice Categories

Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Divorce