Carole Ann Pasternak

Carole is a partner at Klampe Law Firm and has been with the firm since 1999. Her practice focus is family law, a dynamic field involving all aspects of divorce, custody, child support, parenting time, adoption, and domestic abuse. She is Rule 114 neutral providing family mediation services.
Family immigration is also part of her practice. Reuniting clients with fiancés, spouses, parents and children from across the globe is a highly rewarding aspect of such work.
While attending law school, Carole was Associate Editor of the Seton Hall University School of Law Constitutional Law Journal and authored "Victims Once Again: The New Jersey Supreme Court's Unwillingness to Provide all Marital Tort Victims the Right to a Jury Trial". She was selected to be a research assistant to Professor Jack M. Sabatino, now serving as an appellate court judge in Trenton, New Jersey.
During law school, Carole clerked for Honorable Herbert S. Glickman dealing exclusively with family law matters. Carole was active in the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall and represented underprivileged clients in family law matters as a student attorney through a mentorship program. She also served as a mediator in the special civil part of the district court handling landlord/tenant issues and other conciliation court matters.
Carole serves on the board of directors for Project Legacy, a nonprofit agency that provides wrap around support for youth and young adults of color to allow them to become contributing members of the community despite their significant challenges with homelessness, gang affiliation, incarceration, etc.