Experience

Jessica Natasha Mazur is a senior associate in Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas’ Family Law Department. Providing comfort and closure to people enduring the most stressful experiences of their lives, Jessica has risen quickly in this area of law.  Her experience has enabled her to represent clients located throughout the world in complex custody battles, divorces, child support matters, prenuptial agreements, domestic violence disputes, visitation/parenting time issues, equitable distribution, civil unions, and restraining orders. Jessica’s career, spanning over a decade, began in the trenches of the legal community as a legal secretary, as she worked her way through law school. Rising steadily, she ultimately became partner and owner of the very firm where she was once a legal secretary. Now, given the opportunity to join Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas’ expanding Family Law Department, she is eager to further the firm’s well respected reputation into Monmouth County.

Jessica has successfully taken cases through trial, arbitration, the Appellate Division (see Hatcher v. Hadiddou) as well as mediation and the Early Settlement Panel, balancing all available litigation options to serve her clients’ needs. Jessica was appointed by the Presiding Judge of the Family Division in Middlesex County to aid litigants in resolving their cases as an Early Settlement Panelist. In this age of growing technology, Jessica has been called upon to lecture other attorneys on the intricacies of the Federal Wiretap Act, addressing email spoofs and social media hacking and the impact upon Divorce, Custody, and Domestic Violence litigation. She has appeared as a legal expert on America's Premier Lawyers on CNN Airport TV Network. She was recognized in Time Magazine's 85th Annual Salute to Women In Leadership and served as the Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul A. Kapalko, J.S.C., while he was the Presiding Judge of the Family Part of Monmouth County.

If you happen to find Jessica outside of the Courtroom, you might catch her flying a plane or riding a motorcycle. Jessica started flying at the age of 15 and obtained her private pilot’s license a mere three years later. Through her legal career she has continued to conquer boundaries as the sky is no longer her limit.

Affiliations

• Member, Early Settlement Panel of Middlesex County
• Member, New Jersey Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member, Monmouth County Bar Association
• Member, Middlesex County Bar Association
• Member, Eastern Monmouth County Bar Association
• Member, New Jersey Women Lawyers Association