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Louise R. Zito, Esq.
420 East Main Street 203-281-1717 Phone |
Louise has twenty years of experience
in New York and Connecticut in family law including dissolution,
custody, support, prenuptial, and cohabitation, personal injury
litigation, insurance arbitration, labor and employment, estate and
probate.
A native of Connecticut, she graduated from Hamden High School and
Southern Connecticut State University. She attended New York Law
School and was admitted to the New York bar in 1985, the Connecticut
bar and U.S. District Court in 1986. In her current practice she
represents individuals in all family law matters and related issues
such as estate, probate and family business mediation.
As a family law practitioner she has:
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Participated as a collaborative attorney in dissolutions, custody, and post-dissolution matters
- Mediated all family issues as well as acting as consulting counsel
- Litigated child custody cases, dissolutions, post dissolution modifications of alimony and child support
- Drafted pre-nuptial agreements, separation agreements, co-habitation and partnership agreements, and support documents for civil unions
Louise is a member of the CT Council
for Divorce Mediation, the International Academy of Collaborative
Professionals, the Association for Conflict Resolution and the
Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association.
She is active in community and professional organizations, serving
as Second Chairperson of the Coordinating Council for Children in
Crisis and legislative liaison for the Professional Responsibility
Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association. She is past president
of the Branford Business Network Inc. and a recipient of the
Branford Women’s Network Woman of the Year Award. She is a member of
the Connecticut Bar Association, and the New Haven Bar Association,
and the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund.
She is committed to helping resolve family disputes through the
collaborative divorce and mediation processes convinced that they
provide a positive structure for dispute resolution, help in
transforming one family unit into two communicating, interacting
units and foster self-determination in decision-making that results
in little to no post-dissolution conflict.
Louise taught as an Adjunct Professor for the Quinnipiac University
School of Business, teaching ethics and diversity from 2001 to 2004
and has lectured extensively to local community organizations and
business groups.
