Family Law

A divorce or other family issue can be disruptive and emotionally charged for everyone concerned. Family-related legal cases present adults and children with numerous adjustments and challenges. Attorney Kretowicz understands both the legal and emotional issues

that arise in family cases. He is committed to providing the most effective level of legal service and representation while keeping your personal worries and challenges in mind at all times.

Attorney Kretowicz provides experienced legal representation and personalized service in every area affecting the family. Clients appreciate the firm's supportive atmosphere - and its attorney's legal ability and experience. Attorney Kretowicz practices in the following areas:

• Adoption

• Child custody and child support

• Divorce, dissolution and legal separation

• Domestic abuse and domestic violence

• Enforcement and modification proceedings

• Maintenance, spousal support and alimony

• Marital property division and retirement benefits

• Paternity proceedings

• Premarital and prenuptial agreements

• Separation agreements

• Visitation and placement

Mediation

In Divorce Mediation the couple controls how quickly or slowly decisions are made, when the divorce Petition is filed, and what the terms of the divorce will be in the Marital Settlement Agreement. Each step is by agreement, in contrast to the adversarial process in which attorneys set court dates and judges make decisions with very limited time and information.

Criminal Law

At the Law Office of Adam A. Kretowicz, criminal defense is a priority. The firm's attorney's are experienced criminal defense lawyers ,and have worked as public defenders and with the Attorney General's Office.

• Misdemeanors
• Felonies
• Homicides
• White collar offenses
• Domestic Violence
• Spousal Abuse
• Drug Offenses
• Drug Possession
• Burglary
• Robbery
• Theft
• Juvenile Law
• Probation violations
• Traffic Offenses
• Drunk driving

If you, a friend, or a family member, has been charged with a crime, you may not realize how serious your situation is. Every criminal prosecution is serious, even if the offense is a traffic offense or a misdemeanor. So-called "minor" offenses can carry substantial fines or jail time - and the consequences don't stop there. A traffic offense could make it extremely difficult for you to obtain motor vehicle insurance, except at a dramatically higher premium. A misdemeanor conviction could cause problems when you are looking for a job.

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence consists of acts committed in the context of an adult intimate relationship. It is a continuance of aggressive and controlling behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, that one adult intimate does to another. Domestic violence is purposeful and instrumental behavior directed at achieving compliance from, or control over, the abused party. It is one of the most under-reported crimes in the United States, and the Department of Justice in 1998 estimated that there are between 960,000 and four million domestic incidents each year. In 1994, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that about 92 percent of domestic violence cases involve female victims.

Legal definitions of domestic violence are usually delineated by the relationship between the parties and by the nature of the perpetrator's abusive behaviors. For example, the relationship may be a current spouse, a former spouse, a family member, a child, parents of a child in common, unmarried persons of different genders living as spouses, intimate partners of the same gender, dating relationships, and persons offering refuge. Such definitions recognize that victims may not be exclusively women, and domestic assaults may not just occur between heterosexual couples. The types of behavior frequently encountered in domestic violence are physical attacks, sexual attacks, psychological abuse, and the destruction of property or pets.