By Bill Swayze
A team of lawyers from the Morristown area will be on hand Friday night at the Long Hill Chapel in Chatham Township to discuss matrimonial law and ways to resolve divorce disputes as peacefully as possible, and on Saturday morning to focus on elder law issues.
Church Associate Pastor Dan Petersen said the church is committed to providing information helpful to the community and divorce and healthcare for the elderly are important topics. “We have expertise in our church and we find ways to extend that expertise to the community.”
Morristown matrimonial law attorney Candace Scott, a church member who approached Petersen with the idea of offering the seminar, noted, “The church has served the greater community needs over the past 60 years. They are focused on outreach, service and meeting the needs the church family comprised of over 600 members and the community at large. The outreach program, in the last year, has provided an eight-week community career workshop, a weekend seminar on psychological counseling and is now offering this seminar to address significant and difficult issues relating to divorce, custody, domestic violence and the use of mental health specialists.
“There also will be a focus on elder law issues such as medicare, social security disability, long term care and estate planning considerations within the family context. These are real life issues for real families. It is a great church with a great heart for service,” Scott said.
The seminar at the church at 525 Shunpike Road runs for two hours Friday evening (Feb. 4) beginning at 7 p.m., with the spotlight on the latest developments in family law including the use of alternative dispute resolution options such as mediation, arbitration and collaborative law, as well as the role of mental health professionals in custody matters, domestic violence and the involvement of the state Division of Youth and Family Services.
The seminar continues for another two hours Saturday morning (Feb. 5) beginning at 9 a.m. with presentations on the ins and outs of family related matters heard in municipal court such as drunk driving cases, elder law and long-term healthcare, Medicaid and tax planning issues.
The speakers include:
Sanford Kahan, a certified family law mediator in Morristown and matrimonial law attorney who has limited his practice to family law mediation for 10 years and has handled hundreds of court appointed and private mediations. Mediation enables divorcing couples to use reach agreements with a neutral third party mediator who helps them resolve their differences.
Kenneth Rempell, an attorney and Millburn businessman who left Wall Street to focus on the practice of “collaborative divorce,” a relatively new marriage-ending non-adversarial approach in New Jersey that teams up mental health professionals and financial experts with attorneys and clients outside the traditional court setting to resolve the case. He is head of the New Jersey Collaborative Law Group and serves on the IACP Standard & Ethics Committee. His wife Dr. Jeryl Rempell is a psychotherapist and member of the New Jersey Collaborative Law Group.
Robert Dunn, a Morristown certified matrimonial law attorney and a criminal lawyer who handles the majority of our domestic violence, DYFS and municipal court matters all related to family law.
Dr. Sharon Ryan Montgomery, a psychologist and president of the New Jersey Psychological Society who knows the ins and outs of family law custody and parenting practices and is called upon regularly to advise judges and lawyers about common sense approaches to resolve custody and parenting issues. She is on the cutting edge of parent coordination and custody evaluation procedures to assist families caught up in the tug of war that often goes hand in hand with separation and divorce.
Candace Scott, a Morristown certified matrimonial law attorney and fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers who was trained by the AAML as a family law arbitrator in additional to mastering in traditional litigation, divorce mediation and collaborative law.
Vincent Macri, an East Hanover attorney whose focus is on elder law matters. He is one of 300 certified Elder Law attorneys nationwide who has worked on family law cases involving chronic illness, mental incapacity, long-term healthcare, Medicaid, special needs related to healthcare entitlements and issues requiring compliance with regulatory procedures.
For more information, please call the church at (973) 377-2255.
