Catherine Romania - Florham Park, NJ
Attorney at Witman Stadtmauer, P.A.
Estate Planning Lawyers in Florham Park, NJ
26 Columbia Turnpike Suite 100 Florham Park, NJ 07932 - 2246
- 1 Super Lawyers®
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45
Years
Experience
Florham Park Estate Planning Lawyer
Updated: 02/28/2026
Areas of Practice
- Estate Planning
- Estate Administration
- Business Matters
- Tax Matters
Attorney Information
Overview
Catherine Romania is a detail-oriented, experienced and trusted advisor who listens to and works closely with her clients to achieve their goals. She focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate administration and business succession planning. She is also a skilled mediator.
Whether representing prosperous clients needing sophisticated, complex, estate plans to transfer wealth while minimizing taxes or clients motivated solely with family harmony, Catherine has the knowledge and skill to prepare the necessary wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, supplemental needs trusts, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, real estate transfer documents, and other business or estate planning documents required. She also ensures clients are protected in the case of incapacity, including discussing the choice of agents for and preparing powers of attorney, living wills/advance health care directives and guardianships.
In the area of estate administration, she works with fiduciaries and family members in post-mortem tax planning, preparation of federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax returns, New York state estate tax returns and New Jersey inheritance tax returns and audits of the returns. Realizing that the death of a loved one is a difficult time, and can also result in conflict, her skills as a mediator assist in the dissipation of family discord.
Catherine is accredited by the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators as a business and commercial mediator. She also maintains qualifications to serve on both the civil and family court mediation rosters. As such she has served as a neutral to successfully facilitate agreement among parties in numerous business, probate and family economic disputes.
Notwithstanding her busy practice, Catherine is involved in the legal community as an active member of a number of organizations including having served as a member and Chair of the District X Fee Arbitration Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and a member and Chair of the District XA Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and past president and current Director on the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey. Additionally, she frequently contributes to the NJMoneyHelp.com and Bamboozled column in NJ.com and has lectured and has had articles published in the field of estate planning. She has been recognized by her peers as a Super Lawyer. To learn more about the selection process of this group, please click here - Super Lawyers
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Awards and Honors
Honors
- Super Lawyers
Other Sources of Feedback About Catherine Romania
Included on the 2026 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2025 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
- 2024 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
- 2023 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
- 2022 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
- 2021 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
- 2020 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
Education
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Legal Education
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New York University School of Law,
New York,
New York, 1985
LL.M. Taxation -
St. John's University School of Law, 1981
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
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New York University School of Law,
New York,
New York, 1985
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Non Legal Education
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Bucknell University,
Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, 1979
B.S.
Honors: magna cum laude
Major: Accounting
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Bucknell University,
Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, 1979
Current Employment Position(s)
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Partner
Classes and Seminars
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Basic Estate Administration, PLI, 2019 to 2020
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Estate Planning Summer Institute, NJ ICLE, 2016 to 2019
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What Family Law Attorneys Should Know About Tax, Trust, and Estate Law, NJ ICLE, 2015 to 2016, 2022-2023
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11th Annual Road to Personal Wealth Financial Conference, Star Ledger Ask the Biz Brain Panel, 2013
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Estate Administration, NJ ICLE, 2013
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Advanced Estate Administration, NJ ICLE, 2012
- Estate Planning for Special Situations, NJ ICLE, 2004
Published Works
Articles
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Frequently contributes to NJMoneyHelp.com
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Frequently contributed to New Jersey Star-Ledger Biz Brain and Bamboozled columns
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Death During Divorce: The Deepening Abyss of the Black Hole, The New Jersey Law Journal, 2019
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Addressing Estate and Gift Tax Issues in a Premarital Agreement or Divorce, The New Jersey Law Journal, June, 8, 2015
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Addressing Alimony Under Premarital Agreements Signed Before 2019, The New Jersey Law Journal, 2019
- Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014, The New Jersey Law Journal, March 9, 2015
- Change Your Beneficiaries After Divorce, The New Jersey Law Journal, February 5, 2015
- Pitfalls when Guaranteed Universal Life Insurance is Held in Trust, The New Jersey Law Journal, July 28, 2014
- Limitations and Uncertainties of the 529 Plan, The New Jersey Law Journal, January 13, 2014
- IRS Proposes Significant Revision to Form 5498, The New Jersey Law Journal, December 16, 2013
- For Love, Money and the Exemption, The New Jersey Law Journal, June 13, 2011
- Pet Trusts; Disinheriting a Child, Estate Planning for Special Situations, NJ ICLE, 2004
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey, 1981
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1981
- New York, 1982
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1982
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1982
- U.S. Tax Court, 1985
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1985
Other Affiliations
- Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
- District XA Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Past Chair
- District X Fee Arbitration Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Past Chair
- Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey, Past President, Current Board Member
- New Jersey State Bar Association (Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Sections)
- American Bar Association (Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Sections)
- New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators, Accredited Business and Commercial Mediator
- Morris County Bar Association
- New Jersey Inn of Transactional Counsel
Contact
26 Columbia Turnpike
Suite 100
Florham Park, NJ 07932 - 2246
Phone: 973-822-0220
Fax: 973-822-1188
Email: Send a message
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