New Jersey Super Lawyer Romanowski limits his practice to NJ Divorce & NJ Matrimonial Law, NJ Child Custody Law & NJ Family Law. Licensed to practice law since May 1980, he is Chairman, Collaborative Family Institute, LLC an organization dedicated to positive transformation of divorce, child custody & parenting disputes in America. Romanowski is a Court Appointed Chancery Division Mediator, Matrimonial Early Settlement Program (ESP) Panelist & Parent Coordinator / Parenting Coordinator. He is included on the Presiding Judge’s list of Counsel for Children & Guardians Ad Litem.

For nearly 25 years, Romanowski has provided intensive training programs & expert consultation concerning Divorce, Child Custody & Family Law, conflict negotiation, mediation, relationship psychology & interpersonal communication technique. He also taught New Jersey college courses in NJ Divorce Law, NJ Family Law & Law Office Management. A frequent contributor to New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJ ICLE), Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) & New Jersey Family Lawyer, New Jersey Divorce Lawyer Romanowski presents advanced topics in NJ Divorce, Child Custody & Family Law to Judges, attorneys & mental health professionals at public seminars including:

• Containing Conflict in Family Law Cases – NJ ICLE, AFCC
• Children, Divorce & Custody: Lawyers & Mental Health Professionals Working Together with a Focus on Alternate Dispute Resolution in Child Custody Cases – NJ ICLE
• Sixth Annual Family Law Summer Institute – NJ ICLE
  • Child Support Calculation – Key Considerations & Strategies
• Seventh Annual Family Law Summer Institute – NJ ICLE
  • Settlement Conferences with the Court
  • Trial Techniques
• Eighth Annual Family Law Summer Institute – NJ ICLE
  • Preparation of Pendente Lite Applications
• Progressive Divorce: Making Best Practices Better by Getting There First – AFCC
• High Conflict Families & the Courts, An International Showcase – AFCC
  

NJ Divorce & Child Custody Attorney Romanowski’s involvement with Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) includes the following service:

• Chairman – Program Committee – NJ AFCC
• Executive Committee – NJ AFCC
• Steering Committee – NJ AFCC
• Liaison to New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education – NJ AFCC
• Liaison to Committee on Judicial Education – NJ AFCC

Additional professional involvement:

• Board of Editors: Matrimonial Strategist Magazine
• National Association of Counsel for Children
• Family Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA)
• American Arbitration Association
• Association for Psychological Type
• Editorial Advisory Board: Quality Matters, an internationally circulated monthly magazine dedicated to furthering development of Continuing Quality Improvement

Romanowski also helped develop New Jersey’s FamilySoft ® Calculator, a computer program used to calculate child support & produce essential legal documents.

Other relevant publications have included:

• New Jersey Family Lawyer - New Jersey State Bar Association periodical addressing important aspects of Family Law – NJSBA
• New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education publications including:
  • Children, Divorce & Custody: Lawyers & Mental Health Professionals Working Together - A 2-Day Conference – NJ ICLE
  • Containing Conflict in Family Law Cases – NJ ICLE
  • Children, Divorce & Custody: Lawyers & Mental Health Professionals Working Together With a Focus on Alternate Dispute Resolution in Child Custody Cases – NJ ICLE
  • Seventh Annual Family Law Summer Institute - Settlement Conferences with the Court – NJ ICLE
  • 2004 Family Law Summer Institute: The Law & The Pragmatics of Pragmatics of Practice - Preparation of Pendente Lite Applications - NJ ICLE
  • Family Law for Paralegals - Preparation of Pendente Lite Applications - NJ ICLE

New Jersey Law Journal ran a cover story concerning Romanowski’s work in its April 16, 2001 issue entitled “‘Collaborative Divorce’ Promises Dissolution Without the Distress”

One year later, New Jersey Law Journal featured an Opinion & Commentary by Romanowski in its April 15, 2002 issue entitled “Progressive Divorce: A Way of Making Best Practices Better”

As recently as February 2, 2004, New Jersey Lawyer at Volume 13, Number 3, the annual special section, “Advances in Family Law,” included a feature length article written by Romanowski on the topic of mediation, entitled New Jersey’s Civil War in Divorce Mediation.

Romanowski’s regularly featured professional advice column, “The Progressive Lawyer,” appears in The Matrimonial Strategist, a nation-wide periodical published by Leader Publications, a division of American Lawyer Media Inc.

John R. Nachlinger, Esq.

• Education: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Political Science, 2001
  Seton Hall University School of Law (Newark, NJ) J.D., Cum Laude, 2004

• Bar Admissions: New Jersey (2004) and New York (2005)

• Experience: Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Ciuffani
  New Jersey Superior Court
  Chancery Division – Family Part, Middlesex County
  June 2005 to August 2005
  
  Law Clerk to the Honorable David A. Rosenberg
  New Jersey Superior Court
  Chancery Division – Family Part, Middlesex County
  September 2004 to June 2005
  
  R. 1:21-3(b) Attorney, Family Law Clinic
  Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice
  December 2003 to May 2004
  
  Extern, University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.
  Office of Legal Management (Newark, NJ)
  August 2003 to December 2003
  
  Law Clerk to the Honorable Jane Bland
  Texas First Circuit Court of Appeals (Houston, TX)
  May 2003 to August 2003
  

• Affiliations:
  New Jersey State Bar Association 2001-present
  • Family Law Section 2003- present
  • Young Lawyer’s Division 2001- present
  
  Middlesex County Bar Association 2004-present
  • Family Law Division 2004- present
  
  American Bar Association 2001-present
  • Family Law Section 2003-present
  • Litigation Section 2001-present
  • Young Lawyer’s Division 2001-present
  

• Honors: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, N.J. Chapter
  2004 Award for Excellence
  
  Seton Hall Law Review 2002-2004
  
  Fellow, Eisenhower Leadership Institute 2000-2001
  
  Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society