Ms. Grossman has devoted her career exclusively to Family Law since graduating from Temple University Law School in 1991. She is a 1988 cum laude graduate from Brandeis University. Having spent the first 15 years of her legal career as an advocate and most recent 15 as a Family Court Master in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Ms. Grossman founded the Family Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2017. In 2020, she merged the Center with the law firm of Potts & Shoemaker, now Potts, Shoemaker & Grossman, LLC whereby she leads the firm’s alternative dispute resolution department and has resumed the representation of individuals in their domestic relations matters. Ms. Grossman is a certified mediator and completed the arbitration certification program of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She has used her experience as a master and arbitrator to train other arbitrators. She also holds a graduate tax certificate in estate planning, and is a past-chair of the Montgomery Bar Association Family Law Section. Additionally, Ms. Grossman has served on Council to the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section and has been a frequent author and lecturer for the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Pennsylvania Bar Association Continuing Legal Education programs in all areas of family law and alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Grossman is past-president of the Brandywine Valley Chapter of CISV (formerly, Children’s International Summer Villages), an international peace education organization; and sits on the board of the West Chester Area Child Access Center, which provides free supervised visitation for parents and their children.

Andrea B. Pettine is a Family Law attorney with over 32 years of experience in West Chester and Chester County, Pennsylvania. Andrea’s practice concentrates in the areas of divorce, child and spousal support, alimony, custody, pre-marital agreements, property settlement agreements, mediation, arbitration, and parenting coordination. Andrea serves as a Family Law and Divorce Arbitrator, as well as a Mediator for those couples who wish to pursue mediation or arbitration as an alternative method of resolving the emotional issues surrounding their case without litigation and the benefit of reduced legal fees. Andrea is involved in several professional organizations including the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where she is a member of the Family Law Section, a former member of the House of Delegates, and a former member of the Conference of County Bar Leaders Executive Committee (CCBL). She served as the President of the CCBL in 2022/2023. Andrea also served as the 2009 President of the Chester County Bar Foundation and the 2008 President of the Chester County Bar Association. She is a member of the board of directors for the Chester County Bar Foundation. Her past service to the Chester County Bar Association includes that of President-elect (2007), Vice-President (2006), Treasurer (2005), Secretary (2004), Director, and Chair of the Family Law Section. She served as the Bar Association’s Chairperson of the Bench Bar Conference Committee for more than 20 years. Her other activities with the Chester County Bar Association include work with the Judicial Evaluation Committee, Fee Dispute Committee, Pro Bono and Membership Committees, Ethics and Civility Task Force, as well as the Law Related Education Committee. Andrea is also a member of the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce’s Professional Development Committee, the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators, and the Amicable Divorce Network. Andrea has served on the March of Dimes’ Salute to Chester County Women of Achievement Committee and is a former member of the Chester County Women’s Referral Network. Through the Chester County Adult Night School, she taught the “Divorce Course for Women.” Andrea also volunteers her time representing clients through the Access to Justice programs and has appeared as a guest speaker on law related topics in various schools throughout Chester County. She has also participated as a panel speaker for both Chester County and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Parenting Coordination programs. She served as the Chairperson for Chester County’s Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter Spring fundraiser committee and as a long-time member of Safe Harbor’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Andrea is currently a member of the West Chester Area Senior Center Board of Directors. Andrea B. Pettine is a 1992 graduate of the Villanova University School of Law and a 1989 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. She is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Judge Ronca was elected to the Montgomery County Bench in November 2023. He sits in the family division of the Court. He attended The Pennsylvania State University where he graduated with Honors and graduated from Temple University School of Law as a member of Moot Court Honor Society in 1986. After law school, he entered the practice of law as an Assistant District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. He then practiced as a Civil Litigator for 10 years, first with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General and, later, with the Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company. For the following 24 years, he was a successful Family Law Attorney with firms of various sizes including a firm that he helped to found, Sattin, Ronca and Cornelison, where he practiced for 15 years. During that time, Judge Ronca also served as a family mediator, arbitrator, and parenting coordinator, before taking the bench. Judge Ronca served in various capacities in the Montgomery Bar Association including as an Executive Board member, Family Section Chair, and Sidebar Chair.

Ms. Zack is a partner with the law firm of Momjian Anderer, LLC, practicing family law in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Ms. Zack is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, co-chair of the Pennsylvania Chapter’s Programming Committee, and a member of the national Legislative, Arbitration, and Test Committees. She serves as the Chair of the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section, and is a past-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Ms. Zack is an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, and Chester County Bar Association Family Law Sections, the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, and an Interdisciplinary Group of judges, psychologists and lawyers who meet to discuss ways to improve the resolution of custody issues. She is certified as an arbitrator, mediator, and parenting coordinator. Ms. Zack served for eight years (2009-2016) as a Family Court Hearing Officer in Chester County, as well as as Chief Law Clerk for the Honorable Berle M. Schiller in the Pennsylvania Superior Court (1998-1999). She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Douglass College (Rutgers University) in 1984, and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1987.

Ms. Early is a family law attorney and owner-partner at Boyd & Early Family Law, LLC. She concentrates her practice in the area of family law and her expertise includes divorce, equitable distribution, support, custody, and abuse matters. She is a certified parenting coordinator in addition to serving as a court-appointed child advocate and guardian for minor children. Ms. Early serves as an arbitrator for civil cases in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas and also handles private mediation and arbitration cases that involve family law issues. She has previously served as a court appointed mediator in Philadelphia and New Jersey civil cases. Ms. Early received a B.S. in BioBehavioral Health with a Minor in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University at University Park and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law. After graduating from Temple, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable William C. Todd, III, Presiding Judge Chancery Division in the New Jersey Superior Court. Ms. Early is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and sits on the Council advisor board for the Family Law Section. She also is involved in the Montgomery County Bar Association where she serves as Vice Chair for the Family Law Section. In 2019, she was appointed by the President Judge of Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas to the Montgomery County Family Justice Advisory Board Subcommittee on Support. In 2021, Ms. Early was appointed as a Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She also serves as a trustee for the Montgomery County Bar Foundation and represents the Bar Foundation on the Montgomery County Bar Association Nominating Committee. Ms. Early has been recognized as a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star”, a “Best Lawyers in America for Family Law” and a “Ten Leaders in Divorce Law, Age 45 and Under” for the Greater Philadelphia area. Locally, she has also been recognized as a “Top Attorney” by both Montco Happening Magazine and Bucks Happening Magazine, and a “Top Lawyer” by Main Line Today Magazine. She is a frequent lecturer and educator on the local and state level on complex and evolving family law issues. Outside of her work, Ms. Early spends time with her family and is involved in her local community serving as a board member on the West Chester YMCA Advisory Board, volunteering with a number of local youth sports organizations and, perhaps most importantly, filling the role of a homeroom parent.

Dr. Cohen is a psychologist in private practice in Southampton. His practice is currently limited to consultation, reviews of evaluations and testimony, litigation support, and educational presentations. In his past practice he actively worked with high conflict families by providing custody evaluations, parenting coordination, co-parent counseling, and family therapy. In addition, Dr. Cohen treated individual adults, adolescents and children. He was a member and chairperson of the Pennsylvania Board of Psychology (the Licensing Board) and a past president of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. Dr. Cohen has served as the chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the Ethics Committee of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists. He is a past president of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and a past president of the Delaware Valley Society for Adolescent Health. Dr. Cohen is a member of the Child and Family Forensics Committee of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Association of Custody Evaluators. In addition, he was a member of the PPA Parenting Coordination Task Force, composed of five psychologists, five judges and five attorneys who worked on developing a Model Order and Rules for consistency across the state. Dr. Cohen was on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work for almost 30 years. He is a frequent guest lecturer for lay and professional audiences, including the Family Law Divisions of the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Bucks County Bar Associations. Dr. Cohen received his doctorate from Bryn Mawr College.

Stacy Dougherty is the Executive Director at Laurel House. During her 15 years at Laurel House and prior to her appointment to Executive Director she held many positions within the organization including Deputy Director, Director of Community Outreach and Domestic Abuse Response Team Manager. She earned her Master’s in public administration and her Bachelor of Science (Criminal Justice) from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Fisher is the principal at Fisher Family Law, LLC, with offices in Lafayette Hill and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. She is admitted to the Bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, and the District Court of New Jersey. She is a member of the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where she currently serves on the Section’s Rule Committee. She has been on the Board of Directors for Philadelphia VIP. She has been named a Volunteer of the Month by Philadelphia VIP and has received the pro bona Publico Award from the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania and the Pro Bono Award from the American Bar Association Section of Family Law. She is a member of the Montgomery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American, and New Jersey State Bar Associations, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, and the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court. She serves or has served on various committees of those associations. She is a past-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Family Law Section, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Ms. Fisher has planned courses, and lectured and authored materials, for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Camden County Bar Association, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Philadelphia VIP, and other organizations. Ms. Fisher has served two terms as a Member of the District IV (New Jersey) Fee Arbitration Committee, several of which were as panel chair. In addition to her litigation practice, she serves as a Parenting Coordinator and Mediator and is trained in Collaborative Law. She received her B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and her J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law.

Mr. Melchiorre graduated from Villanova University in 1989 with a degree in Political Science and a Business minor in Management. He graduated from Widener University School of Law in 1992. Mr. Melchiorre is a family lawyer who has been in practice for 31 years. He was initially the judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jacqueline C. Cody of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Melchiorre then became staff counsel for Chester County Domestic Relations, where he worked for 12 years, leaving that office as supervising staff attorney. He practiced family law with the law firm of Saling Litvin and Hambleton for several years before opening his own practice in 2007. Mr. Melchiorre frequently handles support, custody, divorce, mediation, arbitration and parenting coordination matters in his practice. He is a member of the Doris Jonas Freed Inn of Court and a past Chair of the Chester County Family Law Rules Committee. He is the former Chair of the Sole Practitioners Section of the Chester County Bar Association and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Chester County Bar Association. He frequently lectures on Family Law related topics for the Chester County Bar Association.

Matthew J. Sullivan, Ph.D. has been in private practice in California, specializing in Family Dispute Resolution and clinical work in the Family Courts for over 30 years. He is a pioneer in the development of the Parenting Coordination role internationally and regularly presents at conferences and trains family justice professionals about Parent-Child Contact problems in shared parenting arrangements. He was the President of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) international organization from 2019-20, was presented the AFCC’s president’s award in 2023 and the Myer Elkin essay award for the article judged best in the 2024 volume of the Family Court Review. He served on the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee from 2016-2018. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Family Court Review.He is the co-founder of Overcoming Barriers, Inc., which is a non-profit organization that has developed a variety of innovative programs for high-conflict shared custody arrangements.

Judge Rovito joined the Chester County Court of Common Pleas in January 2022 and was named the Administrative Judge of Family Court in January 2025. She hears family, criminal and juvenile cases. Prior to her election, she was a sole practitioner in West Chester when, in January 2009, she opened Rovito Law LLC. Her practice was concentrated in all aspects of family law. Judge Rovito also acted as a mediator, arbitrator and a parenting coordinator, both prior to the new rules and after. Prior to opening her own practice, Judge Rovito served as a Family Court Hearing Officer in Chester County for almost 15 years. She presided over thousands of custody conciliations and record support, divorce, and complex equitable distribution hearings. Judge Rovito has also acted as the Juvenile Hearing Officer in both dependency and delinquency matters. After a brief period of time as in-house counsel for a Fort Washington business, Judge Rovito joined the Chester County District Attorney’s Office in 1988, where she assisted with the establishment of the Child Abuse Unit and was the managing attorney of the unit until she left in 1994 to join the Hearing Officers’ Unit. She is a member of the Education Committee for PCSTJ and co-chair of the Family Law Section. She is also a member of the Supreme Court Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee. She is a member of the Chester County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.