Focusing on the Children




I appreciate the time you are taking to explore and decide on the person who will work best with you. As a Monmouth County divorce attorney and mediator, I focus on family law matters in Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey. Family law matters include the negotiation and mediation of issues relating to divorce and separation, custody and child support, asset and property distribution, and premarital agreements. I also offer services for real estate transactions (purchases, sales and refinances) and estate planning documents (wills, powers of attorney and advanced medical directives).
Contact us today to discuss how Anna-Maria Pittella can help with your case.

















I am representing XX and wanted to make sure you had my email address to forward me your MOU in Word. It was such a well done draft, we don't want to have to "reinvent the wheel." Thank you so much!
I definitely would recommend mediation to a friend, colleague or family member. I found the information gathering to be highly effective. I experienced Anna Maria Pittella to be thorough and careful to address every question. In the end the divorce was accomplished without contentiousness.
Thank you for working with us and making this complicated process digestible. We also appreciated your manner during this time ..peppered with humor and compassion for our family, but kept us on task to complete the issues for the MOU.
Thank you for all your help, guidance and support in navigating a very difficult course. Your staff is great and you made this whole event something to be fared with dignity and respect, even a bit of humor when warranted. My heartfelt thanks
Thank you for retrieving the paperwork I requested. Kids are grown up. My daughter is all grown up…. My son is graduating from college soon….. I am doing great , excited about the new life in [my birth country]. I think my job is finished in NJ 😊.
It was so great to have you as my lawyer during the most difficult time . You will always be remembered
Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.
The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.