Carloyn Daly, Esq.

About The Lecturer

Carolyn is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Matrimonial Law Attorney who prides herself on her pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to resolving family law matters in a manner that best serves her clients and their families. Family court judges regularly appoint her as a mediator, guardian ad litem, and parent coordinator.

Carolyn is trained in collaborative divorce, divorce mediation, parent coordination, and arbitration and has significant experience handling divorce litigation, domestic violence, custody and parenting time, alimony, child support, college contribution, enforcement of settlement agreements, equitable distribution, and division of complex assets such as restricted stock units, stock options, cryptocurrency, deferred compensation, and closely held businesses.

Prior to establishing her family law practice, Carolyn gained experience in several different areas of law, giving her a unique perspective that allows her to identify issues that other family law practitioners often overlook.

An active member of the family law community in New Jersey, Carolyn is involved in several family law organizations. She is the immediate past president of the New Jersey chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), and previously served as secretary, treasurer, and vice president. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Committee and served on the New Jersey Courts’ Supreme Court Family Practice Committee. Carolyn has been an Early Settlement Panelist in Morris County since 2005 and is a former Morris County Child Support Partnership committee member. In 2022, she worked to launch a supervised parenting time program, Family Matters of Morris County, which provides supervised parenting time and other critical resources to families in need both in Morris County and throughout the state.

Carolyn is a frequent speaker and author on various family law topics such as child support, college contribution, interstate custody and support, tracing and locating assets, cohabitation and its impacts on alimony and the intersection between criminal and family law. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Mendham Neighbors, New Jersey Family Magazine, and New Jersey Family Lawyer. Carolyn regularly lectures at continuing legal education courses throughout New Jersey on various family law topics.

Admissions

• New Jersey
• New York
• U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

Associations

• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) – Fellow
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers New Jersey Chapter (AAML NJ) – Immediate Past President (2022- 2023), Former vice president (2021-2022), former Treasurer (2018-2021), former Secretary (2017-2018)
• Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project – Volunteer attorney
• National Association of Professional Women
• New Jersey Courts’ Supreme Court Family Practice Committee
• New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), Family Law Executive Committee
• Partners for Women and Justice – Volunteer attorney

Awards

• New Jersey Super Lawyers List, Family Law: 2013 – 2024
• New Jersey Super Lawyers List, Top 50 Women Lawyers: 2014 – 2024
• New Jersey Super Lawyers List, Top 100 Lawyers: 2015, 2021 – 2024

Education

Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D.

University of Notre Dame, B.A.