This is in reference to the article that appeared in the business section of the April 25 Atlanticville, titled, "County a magnet for top divorce attorneys."

I take issue with the statements made by John DeBartolo, Noel Tonneman, David Ansell, Phillip Jacobowitz, Bonnie Reiss, and John Pavone. For one thing, the statement made that busy matrimonial attorneys can juggle as many as 100 ongoing cases at a time provides evidence that the practice of matrimonial law is strictly a business and there is no time to care about people and to want to help people, as was also stated.

Evidently, the increasing number of children who are forced to suffer the consequence of divorce had no one to represent them. If matrimonial attorneys truly want to help people as they claim they do, they need to divert their attention from satisfying the needs of their clients to satisfying the needs of the children who have been caught in the web of divorce.

Fortunately, for the children, there have been some recent change to the laws of divorce in New Jersey that provide for mandatory mediation and counseling, but watered down due to the objections of the American Bar Association.

I look forward to these changes being strengthened to make them unconditionally mandatory. It will accomplish three things — matrimonial attorneys will find themselves with less work, some of those seeking divorce will have second thoughts, and, most important, the children will end up becoming the victors.

John P. Talerico

Atlantic Highlands