Cheryl E. Connors is a partner of Tonneman & Connors, LLC. Ms. Connors focuses her practice exclusively in the area of family law. She is dedicated to achieving fair and equitable results for her clients taking into account her clients’ priorities and needs. As a qualified mediator pursuant to Rule 1:40 and a collaboratively-trained attorney, she takes a client-centered and holistic approach to her cases. Having handled cases ranging from complex, high-net worth matters to high-conflict custody matters to amicable and uncontested matters, Ms. Connors understands the unique challenges faced by clients in family law matters and the need to strategize with her clients to select the most appropriate and effective process given the client’s particular circumstances.
Ms. Connors concentrates on issues of divorce, child custody, visitation/parenting time, child support, equitable distribution, alimony, palimony, paternity, domestic violence, prenuptial agreements, appeals, mediation and
collaborative divorce. Taking an active role in multiple organizations, Ms. Connors is the Vice Chair of the Family Law Section for the 2023-2024 term and is a member of the Solo and Small-Firm Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. She served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Family Practice Committee from 2017 through 2023. In 2016, Ms. Connors appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the New Jersey State Bar Association in the matter of In re Adoption of a Child by J.E.V. She is also a member of the Middlesex County Bar Association, Monmouth Bar Association, and Collaborative Divorce Professionals of New Jersey. Ms. Connors serves as a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist in Middlesex County, an Intensive Settlement Panelist in Monmouth County and as a Senior Editor on the New Jersey Family Lawyer. Ms. Connors has received recognition from her peers as she was selected for inclusion in the New Jersey Super Lawyers®-Rising Stars list in 2011-2019 and New Jersey Super Lawyers® list in 2020-2023 and received the Martin S. Goldin Family Law Award in 2013 from the Middlesex County Bar Association.
Before forming Tonneman & Connors, LLC, Ms. Connors served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Barry T. Albin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 2005-2006 and then commenced private practice focusing exclusively on family law matters. She graduated from Cornell University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000, with distinction in all subjects, and from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2005, magna cum laude. While attending Seton Hall University School of Law, Ms. Connors received a full scholarship as a Law Chancellor Scholar, was a senior member of the Seton Hall Law Review and received the Raymond del Tufo, Jr. Award.
Ms. Connors is a frequent author and lecturer on the topic of family law:
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