Connecticut’s divorce professionals, verified.
Real attorneys, mediators, CDFAs and therapists — credentials checked against Connecticut’s own official directories, not paid placement.
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Every professional below is currently at the Listed tier: credentials independently verified from an official Connecticut source, automatically included whether they’ve opted into The Cusp or not — the same way a bar association directory works. Nobody here has paid for placement, and none of them have published pricing or been reviewed yet.
What “verified” means on this page
Not every check is the same check, and most directories hide that. Every listing below says which kind it was, and the date we did it — because a license check is a photograph, not a guarantee. Somebody confirmed in August can be suspended in September.
- State registerChecked against the state’s own licensing, court or bar record.
- Issuing bodyChecked against the organization that grants this credential — authoritative for the credential, but it is their own list.
- Membership listingA membership directory. Joining is voluntary, and this is not a license check.
- Self-reportedTaken from this person’s own website. Nobody independent confirmed it, and we are re-checking these against an official register.
- Source linkedChecked against the source linked, which is not a state register.
Nobody paid to be listed here, and nobody can. Listings are not for sale, and no professional on this page has paid us anything to appear on it or to appear higher on it. If we are ever paid in connection with anyone listed here, it will say so on this page, next to that listing. Most of these were confirmed against a state register. A small number were not, and rather than quietly presenting those as equivalent, they are marked and we are re-checking them.
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- Family law & divorce attorneys
- Certified mediators — Verified via an official court-connected or state-recognized mediator roster.
- Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
- Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus — License verified active against the state's official license-lookup tool.
- What these professionals typically cost in Connecticut — See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
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Family law & divorce attorneys
Verified via the state’s official bar / attorney licensing source, filtered to family law practice and active status.
Certified mediators
Verified via an official court-connected or state-recognized mediator roster.
Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
Pulled from the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts’ own public directory of credentialed CDFA professionals.
Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus
License verified active against the state’s official license-lookup tool.
Not included yet. Attorneys: Worth knowing: two attorneys who otherwise fitted well were dropped after the Judicial Branch record showed a public reprimand from the Statewide Grievance Committee, and replaced with equally qualified people. Every attorney listed here shows "no public record of discipline" on the official lookup as of the verified date.
Not included yet. Mediators: Connecticut’s Judicial Branch doesn’t publish a public roster of private family mediators. These five are verified through the Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce — the statewide association of divorce mediators and collaborative practitioners. That confirms membership and that each offers divorce mediation, but it’s a professional association roster, not a government license check. All five are also Connecticut attorneys, whose law licenses can be checked separately.
Not included yet. CDFAs: Four CDFAs. IDFA’s search runs on JavaScript behind a "prove you’re human" check we don’t work around, so only individually-indexed profiles could be confirmed. There are likely more Connecticut CDFAs we couldn’t surface.
Not included yet. coverage: We verified professionals in six of Connecticut’s eight counties. Nobody was confirmed in Tolland or Windham — the state’s smallest and most rural, with very few divorce-specialist practices of their own. Residents there are typically served from Hartford and New London.
What these professionals typically cost in Connecticut
Connecticut falls in the Northeast region on The Cusp’s cost model — illustrative, member-reported ranges, not an official fee survey or a quote.
| Item | Reported range |
|---|---|
| Attorney, uncontested | $1,500–$4,500 |
| Attorney, contested | $8,000–$35,000+ |
| Mediator, full case | $150–$450/hr |
See the main directory page for the full regional cost breakdown across all four professional types.
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The Connecticut Divorce Kit has the exact forms, deadlines, and rejection traps for your county.
The rest of what we have written about Connecticut. Every figure is quoted from Connecticut’s own statute or its courts’ own published schedule, and carries the date we last checked it.
Everybody on this page charges for their time. If money is the constraint — and for most people reading this it is — these two come first, and we earn nothing from either.
- Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut — free civil legal help for people who qualify on income.
- Connecticut Judicial Branch — Representing Yourself — the court’s own self-help material, free to everybody regardless of income.
Divorce coaches are not in this directory, and here is why
Everyone above holds a license a state regulator can take away. “Divorce coach” is not a protected title — in Connecticut or anywhere else — so there is no license to check and no regulator to check it with.
We read each certifying body’s own website looking for one thing: a published route by which a coach can lose the credential. Of the three divorce-specific credentials we examined, not one publishes a disciplinary process a client could actually use.
That is not a reason never to hire one. A coach is cheaper than a lawyer for the things that are not legal problems, and a great deal of what costs people money in a divorce is not a legal problem. It is a reason to know what the credential does and does not mean before you pay anybody.
What the credential actually means · What to ask before you pay · How this directory is ordered
Every agent we introduce in Connecticut is divorce-trained and vetted
Most agents are competent and most have never handled a divorce sale — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. So we do not list agents. We introduce one, and only after they have cleared four things:
- a license we checked ourselves with the regulator, with no unresolved discipline;
- six closed sales in the last two years, from their own MLS records;
- 4.7 or better across every site they are reviewed on, at least ten reviews;
- our divorce real estate training and its twenty-question assessment.
Then we check on you, not on them — at seven days and again at six months.
Ask for an introduction* · The standards in full · Four questions to ask any agent · Agents: get certified
* Hyleri, who writes this site, is a licensed agent with Compass and may receive a referral fee from the introduced agent’s commission if a sale completes — never added to what you pay. How we make money.
I take divorce sales myself, in Connecticut
I am Hyleri. I write The Cusp, and I am a licensed real estate agent with Compass in Connecticut and Florida. Divorce and separation sales are what I do — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. If you would rather work with me than be introduced to somebody else, say so and you will be.
This is not a directory listing, and it is not a recommendation. The professionals listed above were checked against a register and none of them paid to be there. I am the owner of this site, so I cannot be one of them, and putting myself in that list would make every other entry in it worth less. This box says what I do and leaves you to decide.
If you are not in Connecticut or Florida, ask for an introduction instead. The agent you are sent to has cleared the four checks above, and my interest in that introduction is disclosed below.
Ask for me, or for an introduction · How to choose an agent for a divorce sale · What the law does to the house · How we make money
If I am your agent, I am paid the way any agent is paid, out of the commission on the sale. If you are introduced to somebody else instead, The Cusp may receive a referral fee from that agent’s commission — never added to what you pay. Either way it is disclosed here before you contact anyone.