BARI ZELL WEINBERGER PROFILE
Bari Zell Weinberger, Esq.
Email address: Bari@weinbergerlawgroup.com
Bari Zell Weinberger was awarded a Juris Doctorate in 1997 from Suffolk University Law School, and has dedicated her practice exclusively to the fields of family and matrimonial law since her graduation. She served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Roger W. Daley, J.S.C. in the Middlesex County Family Part upon receiving her law degree.
Bari Z. Weinberger is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney, a certification achieved by only 2% of the attorneys in New Jersey. Ms. Weinberger is the Associate Author of the New Jersey Family Law Practice, 14th Ed., 2010, a 5-volume treatise utilized by virtually every family law judge and practitioner in the State of NJ. She has also served in this capacity on prior editions as well. She is presently working as the Associate Author of the 15th Ed., which is scheduled to go to print in 2012. Ms. Weinberger has authored numerous articles, many of which are included in this website for your review and education, and she lectures on various divorce-related topics.
Bari Zell Weinberger has received a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating based on the exemplary work in the field of family and matrimonial law. She was given an “AV” rating from her peers, which means that she is deemed to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability in the field of New Jersey family law and divorce. Only lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability receive this Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.
Bari also volunteers as an expert panelist at the Morris County court in the Early Settlement Panel program. This is the process whereby qualified family law attorneys volunteer their time to offer neutral recommendations to litigants and their attorneys who have not yet settled their matters in the hopes of assisting them in reaching a resolution.
Not only has Bari Zell Weinberger been a board member of the New Jersey Family Inns of Court and Family Law Executive Committee, she has a long-standing membership history with the New Jersey State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Morris County Bar Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Areas of Practice:
Family and Matrimonial Law
Divorce and Legal Separations
Dissolution of Domestic Partnerships
Child Custody
Visitation and Parenting Time
Child Support
Mediation
Alimony and Palimony
Division of Assets – Equitable Distribution
Pre and Post-Nuptial Agreements
Adoption and Kinship Legal Guardianships
Children’s Educational Needs
Emancipation
Modification of Custody
Modification of Child Support
Modification, Reduction or Termination of Alimony
Enforcement of Custody
Enforcement of Child Support
Enforcement of Alimony
Paternity
Domestic Violence Matters
Post Divorce Matters
Relocation out of the State of New Jersey with a child
Certification/Specialties:
Matrimonial Law Attorney, New Jersey Supreme Court
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1999
U.S. District Court, 1999
Education:
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, J.D.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A.
Published Works/ Articles:
New Jersey Family Law Practice, Associate Author, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 14th Ed., 2010
Case Information Statement Explained, article, 2009
New Jersey Family Law Practice, Associate Author, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 13th Ed., 2008
Who Pays For College After Separation or Divorce?, article, 2008
Funding the Divorce Process, article, 2007
New Jersey Family Law Practice, Copy Editor, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 12th Ed., 2006
All Aspects of the Discovery Phase of the Divorce Process, article, 2006
A Matrimonial Guide: A Basic Overview of Starting the Divorce Process, September, 2006
Uncontested Divorce, article, 2005
Understanding the Early Settlement Panel, article, 2005
New Jersey Family Law Practice, Chapters Including Introduction, Initial Conference, Dealing with the Client; Pleadings, Discovery, Motion Practice and Pretrial Dispositions (Editor), New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), 11th Ed., 2004
Burden of Proof in Removal Cases: Who Has It - What is it? (Co-Author with Hon. Herbert S. Glickman (Ret.)), New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, August, 2003
Kids Count: A New Program in New Jersey Helps Attorneys Protect Children's Interests in Divorce Disputes, XXI Matrimonial Strategist 5, June, 2003
Classes/Seminars Taught:
Seminar on Divorce Process, Mediation and Family Law Related Issues, Kinnelon, NJ, December, 2008
Lecture presented in game show theme on various family law issues, June, 2005
Seminar on Divorce and Family Law Related Issues, Randolph, NJ, November, 2004
Lecture on Amended Court Rules and Revised Case Information Statement, October, 2004
Seminar on Surviving the Divorce Process, Short Hills Hilton, September, 2003
Family Law Practical Skills Series, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, September, 2003
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Morris County Bar Association, 2002 - Present
Family Law Executive Committee, 2005
American Trial Lawyers Association, 2002 - 2007
American Bar Association, Family Law Section
New Jersey State Bar Association, Family Law Section
American Inns of Court, 1999 - Present
Family Law Inn; Master/Board Member
Bergen County Bar Association, 2000 - 2002 Middlesex County Bar Association, 1998 - 2000
Past Employment Positions:
Iandoli, Edens & Weinberger, LLC
Partner/Owner, 2006-2008
Cutler, Simeone, Townsend, Tomaio & Newmark, LLC
Partner, 2006
Cutler, Simeone, Townsend, Tomaio & Newmark, LLC
Associate Attorney, 2002 - 2005
Finnerty, LaRocca & Sherwood, P.C.
Associate Attorney, 2000 - 2002
Goldstein & Bachman, P.A.
Associate Attorney, 1998 - 1999Hon. Roger W. Daley, J.S.C.
Middlesex County Superior Court, Family Part
Judicial Law Clerk, 1997 - 1998
WHDH-TV, an NBC Affiliate
Legal Consumer Producer, 1997William Sinnott; Chief
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
US Department of Justice, Law Clerk, 1996
Hon. Vieri Volterra, Suffolk County Superior Court, Civil Division
Judicial Law Clerk, 1996
Pro Bono / Volunteer Activities:
Expert Panelist, Morris County Family Court in the Early Settlement Program
Expert Panelist, Passaic County Family Court in the Early Settlement Program
Participant, Passaic County Kids Count Program
Women’s Center, County College of Morris – Randolph and Morristown
Volunteer Family Law Consultant, Legal Clinic, Morris County
Volunteer Family Law Consultant, County College of Morris,
Randolph, New Jersey and Morristown, New Jersey
Our partner, Bari Zell Weinberger, is certified by the Supreme Court of NJ as a Matrimonial Law Attorney. This Certification is achieved by only 2% of the attorneys in New Jersey.
