ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY, INC.

We are pleased to announce that Family Law expert Peter M. Bryniczka, Esq., Partner, Schoonmaker, George & Blomberg, P.C., will be our guest speaker at our December 7th dinner meeting at Innis Arden Golf Club in Old Greenwich. As this is our year-end holiday gathering, the format of this meeting will be our usual dinner program, with cocktails (cash bar) beginning at 5:45 p.m., followed by dinner promptly at 6:30 p.m., speaker at 7:30 p.m., and we anticipate an end to the meeting between 8:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.

This presentation will provide a thorough understanding of how various factors are considered when working with divorcing couples. An introduction will provide a definition of “property” subject to equitable distribution in dissolution of marriage cases in Connecticut and discuss the history and evolution of same; specifically, what types of interests typically constitute property, which do not, and why. Also discussed will be the application of that definition to a divorce litigant’s interest in a trust and whether it is property to be divided on divorce, when is it property and why, and when is it not property and why not.

Attorney Bryniczka became a Partner of Schoonmaker, George & Blomberg, P.C. in January 2013. He joined the firm as an Associate in 2004. He regularly handles complex family law matters and has served since 2011 as a Special Master in the Stamford/Norwalk Judicial District, assisting other attorneys and parties in resolving their family cases. He also serves as an attorney for Minor Children/GAL representing children in family law cases. Attorney Bryniczka is a past Co-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Fairfield County Bar Association where he organized monthly CLE presentations attended by family lawyers and serves currently as a Board Member of the Greenwich Bar Association. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2001 and received his J.D. from The University of Connecticut School of Law in 2004. While in law school, Attorney Bryniczka was an Associate Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law and co-founder of the UCONN Law Ice Hockey Team. He was admitted to practice in Connecticut in November 2004 and is a member of the Fairfield County Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, and the American Bar Association and the Family Law sections of these Bar Associations.

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