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Watchung Divorce and Family Law Lawyer
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Overview
Kristyl M. Berckes represents clients in all aspects of matrimonial and family law, including all stages of divorce litigation, mediation and arbitration, custody and parenting time issues, third-party custody, alimony and child support, modification of support obligations, separation and marital settlement agreements, post-judgment litigation, domestic violence, grandparent visitation rights, palimony, and domestic partnership matters under the Domestic Partnership Acts.
MoreKristyl M. Berckes represents clients in all aspects of matrimonial and family law, including all stages of divorce litigation, mediation and arbitration, custody and parenting time issues, third-party custody, alimony and child support, modification of support obligations, separation and marital settlement agreements, post-judgment litigation, domestic violence, grandparent visitation rights, palimony, and domestic partnership matters under the Domestic Partnership Acts.
Kristyl M. Berckes represents clients in all aspects of matrimonial and family law, including all stages of divorce litigation, mediation and arbitration, custody and parenting time issues, third-party custody, alimony and child support, modification of support obligations, separation and marital settlement agreements, post-judgment litigation, domestic violence, grandparent visitation rights, palimony, and domestic partnership matters under the Domestic Partnership Acts.
Kristyl represent clients throughout the State of New Jersey. While her office is in Somerset County, she regularly appears in courts in the following New Jersey counties: Somerset, Hunterdon, Warren, Middlesex, Morris, Sussex, Bergen, Hudson, Union, Essex, Passaic, Mercer, Ocean, Monmouth, Gloucester and Burlington.
In family law matters, Kristyl’s clients can rely on her compassion, patience, listening skills, creative problem-solving abilities, knowledge of the law and the New Jersey court system. She wants her clients to feel that they have a voice, and she will be the best advocate for that voice, in what undoubtedly is one of the most difficult times in their lives. Having handled hundreds of divorce and family law cases, Kristyl is a fierce advocate who will undoubtedly work hard to achieve results that are in the best interests of her clients and their families. Kristyl believes success for a client is being able to walk away from his or her case with an identifiable plan for his or her future that they are satisfied with and the tools to execute that plan.
In 2016, Kristyl was awarded with the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division Professional Achievement Award and was recognized by the National Academy of Family Law Attorney’s as a Top 10 Family Law Attorney Under 40. She has also been selected for inclusion on the list of New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars for Family Law in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The American Institute of Family Law Attorneys has named Kristyl as one of the “10 Best” Attorneys for the State of New Jersey since 2015.
Kristyl is a former co-chair of the Somerset County Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division and currently serves a Trustee for the Somerset County Bar Association. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), the NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee and just completed her fellowship for the NJSBA Leadership Academy.
Prior to and while attending law school, Kristyl served as a New Jersey high school English teacher. Since concluding a judicial clerkship with the Honorable James G. Troiano, J.S.C, in the Essex County Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part, she has devoted her private practice exclusively to matrimonial and family law matters
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