Bruce Evan Chase

Bruce Evan Chase was admitted to practice law in 1978 before the Supreme Court of New Jersey and United States District Court for the State of New Jersey. For the past 35 years he has appeared regularly in family law related matters at the trial level. He is a past-president of the Bergen County Bar Association. Currently and for the past 12+ years, he has served as the County Bar’s Family Law Committee Co-Chair. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and currently holds the office of First Vice President of the New Jersey Chapter. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Matrimonial Law Attorney. Bruce E. Chase has extensive experience representing divorcing and separating spouses in a wide spectrum of Family Law cases. Bruce also handles many different types of commercial transactions involving the purchase and sale of small businesses, commercial buildings, business leasing, and advising business clients. Following his boyhood dream, Bruce was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1978, immediately joining his father’s legal practice, as the firm’s only associate. Over the past several years, Bruce has tried Family Law cases involving contested divorce, child custody, shared custody, equitable distribution of property, palimony, the ability of a malingering spouse to earn income, and the right of an underemployed husband to seek alimony from his higher salaried wife. Bruce serves as a Chairperson of an early settlement panel that voluntarily dedicates its time to review settlement proposals and to meet with litigants and their attorneys to resolve contested divorce cases. For the past seven years. After extensive review and evaluation of his experience, ability, and ethics, and after satisfactorily completing a State and Federal written examination, Bruce serves on the Board of Governors of its New Jersey cha