Seventeen years into family law, Kristin still approaches every case the way a good teacher would: make sure the person in front of you actually understands what is happening before they decide anything. She spent a career in the classroom before she spent one in the courtroom, and it shows. Her clients leave meetings knowing what the law means for them, what their options really are, and what it will cost in time, money and energy to get there.

She found this work by accident and never left. Clerking for Presiding Judge Max Baker in Atlantic County in 2009 and 2010, she looked around a courtroom full of lawyers who would all be retired within a decade and realised almost nobody young was coming in behind them. She liked helping people find their way through the system, so she jumped in with both feet. By 2011 she had opened her own practice from her dining room table, running video consultations a full decade before the rest of the world discovered them.

Most of what she does now is creative problem-solving. Her instinct is to build a resolution both sides can live with rather than hand a family over to a court to micromanage. She mediates, and she serves as a parenting coordinator, work she loves precisely because it replaces years of expensive back-and-forth with a process where both parents feel heard and there is finally clarity where there was chaos.

Clients get the truth from Kristin, delivered kindly but without sugar coating. If there is no case, she will say so. That honesty is why, year after year, former clients send her their family, their coworkers and their friends. When litigation is the only road, she fights hard. When settlement is possible, she keeps a level head and steers for it.

Kristin holds a BA in Elementary and Special Education from La Salle University and a JD from Rutgers. She is a Rule 1:40-12 qualified Family Part Mediator and a Rule 5:8D Parenting Coordinator, and a Certified Amicable Divorce attorney through the Amicable Divorce Network with special designations in Gray Divorce and in narcissism.

Outside the office, Kristin is the one who travels furthest for court, which she will tell you is entirely her own doing. She lives in Key West with her husband Chuck, her number one supporter and the reliable provider of lunches and water bottles. She fishes, does yoga, bakes, barbecues, reads anything with nothing to do with divorce, and follows the Eagles home and away. She picked up painting again last year after a thirty year break and now travels with a little paint kit. She is also serious about Halloween, possibly her favourite holiday, and owns three large storage containers of costumes to prove it.

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