Shane and White, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Shane and White, LLC works in family law from Edison, New Jersey, in Middlesex County. A satellite office in East Windsor covers Mercer County. The site says the firm has served New Jersey for more than 40 years.

The case types listed cover the main events of a family law matter. Divorce, child custody and visitation, child support, and alimony all appear. So do equitable distribution and domestic violence.

A few of the listed areas go past the obvious. Annulment is one. Grandparents rights is another, and it gets its own line on the site. Post-judgment modification and enforcement rounds out the list, which covers the years after a divorce decree is signed.

Dispute resolution and courtroom work

The firm offers mediation and arbitration as alternatives to a courtroom fight. It also handles litigation and appeals when a case has to be tried.

The site describes filing cases, motions, emergent applications, and appeals in New Jersey Superior, Municipal, and Appellate Courts. Emergent applications matter in family law. They cover the urgent situations where a parent or spouse needs a judge to act within days.

How the team is built

The site says three attorneys make up Shane and White. Two are named: Mark S. Shane and Kenneth A. White, both partners.

In my opinion, a three-attorney family law firm has a specific shape worth understanding. The named partner who takes your matter is likely to stay on it. There are fewer hands for the file to pass through.

Kenneth A. White

White practices family law at the Edison office. The Supreme Court of New Jersey has certified him as a Matrimonial Law Attorney. That certification is a formal designation the court grants, with its own requirements around experience and peer review.

His listed work covers divorce, custody, support, and domestic violence. Adoption appears on his list as well. He has been appointed to the Assignment Judge's Family Law Committee of Middlesex County and has served as an Early Settlement Panelist.

Those two roles say something about how the local family bar sees him. Early settlement panels in New Jersey put experienced matrimonial lawyers in front of divorcing couples to give a non-binding read on how a case might resolve. Judges pick who sits on them.

Mark S. Shane

Shane is the other named partner. He earned a B.S. from Rider College and a J.D. from Widener University School of Law.

His practice reaches into areas outside family law. Business and commercial law, real estate law, personal injury, and general lawsuits and disputes all appear in his profile. He also handles homeowner association, condominium and co-op matters, municipal court work, and alternative dispute resolution.

The real estate and business experience has a practical use in divorce work. Marital estates often contain a house, a jointly held company, or both. Equitable distribution turns on valuing and dividing those assets.

What the record shows

The firm's own site is the source for everything above. It states a service history in New Jersey of more than 40 years without naming a founding year. It gives an attorney count of three and names two of them.

New Jersey's Matrimonial Law certification carries weight in this field. The state certifies a small share of its lawyers in any given specialty, and the matrimonial designation requires a documented volume of family law practice plus an examination. White holds it.

The court committee appointment and the settlement panel service both point in the same direction. As a reviewer, I read them as signs of standing inside the Middlesex County family court system. They are verifiable through the county bar and the court, which is more than most website credentials offer.

Reach and how clients meet the firm

Two offices give the firm a footprint across two counties. Edison sits in Middlesex County, where the main office is. East Windsor puts a second location in Mercer County, roughly 30 miles south.

Family law is county-bound work in New Jersey. Divorce is filed in the county where a spouse lives, and custody motions land in that same vicinage. A firm with an office in each of two adjoining counties can appear in both courthouses without a long drive.

Both offices handle teleconference and video consultations. For a custody client with children at home or a work schedule that resists daytime appointments, that access has real value.

The firm maintains profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The YouTube channel suggests some effort at explaining family law in video form, which is a useful format for people trying to understand a process they have never been through.

Who this firm fits

The practice area list points toward the full arc of a New Jersey family matter. A person starting a divorce finds divorce, equitable distribution, and alimony on the list. A parent in a custody dispute finds custody, visitation, and child support.

People returning years after a judgment have a place here too. Post-judgment modification and enforcement is listed on its own, and those cases are common: incomes change, parents relocate, support orders need adjusting.

Grandparents rights is a narrower area of New Jersey law with its own statute and a demanding legal standard. Seeing it named on a firm's practice list tells a grandparent that the office has handled these applications before.

Domestic violence work sits alongside the rest. In New Jersey those matters run under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, on a fast timeline, often in parallel with a divorce case. A family law firm that handles both keeps the two tracks in one set of hands.

In my opinion, the clearest signal in this listing is White's matrimonial certification paired with his court committee work. Both come from outside the firm. Both can be checked. Shane and White has two New Jersey offices, three attorneys, and a practice list built around family law.