Carolyn N. Daly

Carolyn N. Daly is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Matrimonial Law Attorney who helps clients navigate family law matters with clarity, planning and a practical path forward. Clients often come to her not only for legal advice, but because she helps them make sense of difficult situations, understand their options and move forward in a way that serves their long-term interests and those of their families.

Carolyn’s practice includes mediation, arbitration, litigation and strategic family law counsel. She has significant experience handling divorce, domestic violence, custody and parenting time, alimony, child support, college contribution, enforcement of settlement agreements, equitable distribution and the division of complex assets—including restricted stock units, stock options, deferred compensation, cryptocurrency and closely held business interests. Family court judges regularly appoint her to serve as a mediator, guardian ad litem and parent coordinator. Before focusing her practice on family law, Carolyn handled matters in several other areas of law, an experience that continues to inform her work by helping her identify legal and strategic issues that may otherwise be overlooked.

Carolyn is trained in divorce mediation, arbitration and parent coordination, and her practice increasingly emphasizes mediation and arbitration as thoughtful, effective ways to resolve family disputes. While litigation remains necessary in some cases, she believes many clients are better served by processes that offer greater privacy, flexibility and control over both the process and the outcome.

A leader in the New Jersey family law community, Carolyn is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a past president of its New Jersey chapter. She serves on the AAML’s arbitration committee, is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and has served on the New Jersey Courts’ Supreme Court Family Practice Committee and the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Committee. She has also served as an Early Settlement Panelist in Morris County since 2005 and has devoted substantial time to service work benefiting families in need, including the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project and Family Matters of Morris County, a supervised parenting time organization she helped launch in 2022.

Carolyn has also helped shape family law in New Jersey at the appellate level. She argued before the Supreme Court of New Jersey in Cardali v. Cardali on behalf of AAML-NJ as amicus curiae on the issue of cohabitation and alimony modification. Her writing has appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal, and she has been featured in publications discussing family law, the judicial crisis and structural reform in family court.

A frequent speaker and author, Carolyn lectures on family law topics including mediation, arbitration, cohabitation, alimony modification, college contribution, interstate custody and support, asset tracing and the intersection of criminal and family law. She regularly presents continuing legal education programs in New Jersey and is a member of the faculty at TRTCLE—a national CLE provider.