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Carolyn Moran Zack
czack@momjiananderer.com
267.546.3712
Ms. Zack brings experience from her work as a litigator and for the court. She began practicing family law in 1987 under the mentorship of Albert Momjian, Esquire and worked with his family law group for fifteen years. Ms. Zack also served as the Chief Law Clerk for the Honorable Berle M. Schiller in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and as a Family Court Master for the Chester County Family Court from 2008 to 2016. As a Family Court Hearing Officer, Ms. Zack guided hundreds of divorce and custody cases to resolution and conducted many hearings on complex equitable distribution issues, including business and real estate valuations, dates of separation and alimony claims. Ms. Zack now serves regularly as a mediator and binding arbitrator for divorce matters, as well as a parenting coordinator for high-conflict custody matters.
Ms. Zack works to improve the practice of family law by writing and teaching, as well as by actively participating in the state and local professional associations. Ms. Zack is a member of the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a member of the Doris Jonas Freed Inn of Court, and a member of an interdisciplinary group of judges, mental health professionals and attorneys who meet regularly to discuss evolving custody issues. Ms. Zack has also served as a past Chair of the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Education
Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1987
Douglass College, magna cum laude, Honors in English, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
Professional Affiliations
Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee of Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Member, 2020-2025
Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section Member, Treasurer (2022-2023), founder and Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act Committee, and former Co-Chair of Rules Committee.
Interdisciplinary Group of Judges, Masters, Attorneys and Mental Health Professionals
Philadelphia Bar Association, Family Law Section Member; Former Chair of the Family Law Section; Former Co-Chair of Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee
American Bar Association, Member of Family Law and Dispute Resolution Sections
Chester County Bar Association Family Law Section
Montgomery County Bar Association Family Law Section Member, Member of the Ad Hoc ADR Committee, and Co-Chair of the Family Law Section Arbitration Committee
Doris Jonas Freed Inn of Court
Awards & Distinctions
AV-Rated Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell
The Honorable Katherine B. L. Platt Award for Mentoring and Volunteerism, Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, May 2022.
Board of Directors’ Award, Chester County Bar Association, 2016
Recent Publications & Speaking Engagements
Moderator and Course Planner, Plenary Session, “High Conflict Family Law Cases: Methods to Help Reduce Conflict,” Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section’s Video, “Tips and Tools for Better Co-Parenting,” and “Panel Discussion on How Lawyers, Mental Health Professionals and Courts Can Effectuate Change in High Conflict Families,” Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section Summer Meeting, July 2022.
Co-Presenter, “ADR and the Uniform Family Law Act,” Chester County Bar Association Family Law Section, June 2022
Co-Presenter at a Plenary Session, “State of Family Law,” Pennsylvania Bar Association Winter Meeting, January 2022.
Co-presenter at the American Bar Association International Law Section Conference on “ADR and Family Law Disputes: Advances and Setbacks in Using Cutting-Edge Techniques in International Family Law,” Washington, D.C., April 2022.
Co-presenter at the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators annual conference on “Latest Developments in Family Law ADR in Pennsylvania,” April 2022.
Co-author, “Family Lawyers as ADR Facilitators,” Pennsylvania Lawyer, January 2022 edition.
Course planner and moderator for “Parenting Coordination Boot Camp 2022,” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Book author, Family Law Arbitration: Practice, Procedure, and Forms, published by the American Bar Association, August 2020—praised as an “outstanding treatise” and a “must-read” in a testimonial published by the American Bar Association at Testimonial1-Amundsen.pdf (americanbar.org)
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