William Phipps Pape has had a lifetime of experience in people problems and their resolution

  

• As an attorney, completed numerous divorces, simple and complex, in both New York and New Jersey, defended parents accused of child abuse and neglect, appeared in municipal court on both traffic and criminal matters, written numerous wills, argued for petitioners in bankruptcy court and fought off foreclosure proceedings

• Served a volunteer mediator in custody, divorce, and small claims matters (Please hit "Links" tab, above, for links to mediation websites)

• Served on the boards of a substance abuse treatment clinic and a women’s support clinic, as well as other non-profit groups serving the community. Advised in legal clinics for Women Helping Women in Metuchen, NJ and Women Aware, New Brunswick, NJ; taught the law portion for a class on parenting education for New York family court litigants

• Admitted to the United States Supreme Court, New York Bar, New Jersey Bar, and two federal district court bars in New Jersey and New York; member Middlesex County Bar Association, Ulster County Bar Association, Dutchess County Bar Association, past vice-chairperson of children's law section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and currently secretary to the board of the Ulster County Bar Association

• Appointed to the Attorneys for Children panel in Ulster County, New York

• Graduated from Princeton University and Rutgers Law School, and trained in mediation, substance abuse, domestic violence, divorce, and custody/visitation issues

•Thirty years working for the court system in New Jersey, as a probation officer, mediator, domestic violence and child support intake officer, supervised visitation supervisor, child custody report and presentence report writer, and supervisor, making recommendations to judges for custody and visitation decisions and criminal sentencing, doing intake with people seeking to file court papers. 

Currently, town justice in Rosendale, New York, serving third elected term, and past president of the Ulster County Magistrates' Association and member of New York State Magistrates' Association 

On steps of US Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., before admission to Supreme Court Bar

Mr. Pape at the Pines in Edison, NJ, attending a seminar in January 2009 summary new family law opinions and court rules.  Picture provided by Middlesex County Bar Association

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