Vol. L · No. I Volume L, No. I · Ridgefield, NJ
A Former Judge. A Father-Son Trial Firm. Fifty Years of New Jersey Practice.
Our first conversation starts with listening. Tell us what happened; we will tell you what is possible — and what the procedural posture really is.
Above: Founding partner Robert W. Avery, Ridgefield Municipal Court Judge 1986–2000, with partner John S. Avery, in the firm's Ridgefield office.
Founding partner Robert W. Avery briefed and argued Delvoye on appeal. The Third Circuit's resulting opinion remains the controlling federal authority on the "habitual residence" of an infant under the Hague Convention — cited in more than two hundred subsequent decisions across the United States.
Procedural defect in the Standard Statement reading; refusal charge dismissed.
Negotiated downgrade to disorderly persons after motion to suppress eyewitness identification.
Two-day trial defending decedent's testamentary capacity against undue-influence challenge.
Editorial note · NJ RPC 7.1 · APR Guideline 3 The matters above are listed for illustrative purposes. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each matter depends on its own facts; the outcomes described are individual to those engagements and do not predict the outcome of any future matter. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING.
Indictable matters in Superior Court · disorderly persons in municipal court · expungement under N.J.S.A. 2C:52.
Alcotest 7110 challenges · refusal-statute defenses · IDRC and ignition-interlock counsel.
CDL violations · reckless driving · point-reduction · plea-reformation in every municipality.
Auto, premises, fall-down and product cases tried — not solicited and settled cheaply.
Divorce · custody · equitable distribution · Hague Convention international-custody work.
Wills · revocable and special-needs trusts · advance directives · estate administration and litigation.
Hoboken & Jersey City rent-control · eviction defense · warranty-of-habitability litigation.
Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Passaic & Sussex municipal practice — DP, traffic, and pre-indictment matters in every vicinage we touch.
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1976. Argued Delvoye v. Lee in the Third Circuit. Fifty years of trial practice across North New Jersey.
Admitted in 2012. Concentrates in criminal defense, DWI, and traffic matters with a Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure focus.