Jennifer Roller Chontos

Areas of Law

• Family Law
• Child Support
• Child Custody
• Alimony
• Divorce
• Property Law
• Premarital Agreements
• Post-nuptial Agreements
• Name Changes
• Equitable Distribution
• Marital Property Distribution
• Alimony Pendente Lite
• Complex Support Litigation
• Exclusive Possession of Marital Residence
• Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs)
• Deeds
• Domestic Violence

Admission Details

• Pennsylvania – 1988
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania – 1988
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit –  1991

Law School Attended

• University of Toledo
  J.D. –  1988

University Attended

• Bowling Green State University
  B.A. – 1982

Associations & Memberships

• Allegheny County Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association : Member, Family Law Section
• Allegheny County Bar Association Children’s Issues Sub-Committee Co-Chairman.

Bar Fellowship

• Allegheny County Bar Foundation Fellows Program Member.

          According to the Allegheny County Bar Foundation website, in 1996, the Foundation established the Fellows program as a formal means to:

1. Recognize and honor attorneys who have shown a commitment to excellence in charitable, community, professional, and/or public service activities.
2. Recognize a level of professional distinction in the legal community based on significant contributions.
3. Create an endowment for bar foundation programs and foster new and innovative programs.
4. Create an organization of members who recognize and accept the bar’s ongoing challenge to fund public service activities.

• Neighborhood Legal Services Association (NLSA) regular Volunteer representing parties in Protections from Abuse Petitions as well as in the Phone Clinic.
• Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania (County of Allegheny) regular Volunteer for people needing representation at the Client Services Self-Help Center.