Jennifer Powers Rutkey, Esq., Member of Law Offices of Gordon, Tepper & DeCoursey, LLP

Jennifer Powers Rutkey is a partner in our family law, custody, matrimonial, and divorce law firm and was born in Schenectady, New York. Ms. Rutkey graduated from Union College in 1992 with a B.S. degree, with honors, and from Albany Law School in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude. As one of our valued attorneys, Ms. Rutkey is admitted to the New York Bar and is a member of the New York State Bar Association Family Law Section and Schenectady County Bar Association. Since 2009, Ms. Rutkey has served on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Family Law Section as the district delegate from the Fourth Judicial District. She serves on the Schenectady County Bar Association’s Matrimonial Committee. In 2002, she was named "Young Lawyer of the Year" by the Schenectady County Bar Association. Ms. Rutkey has lectured on divorce, custody, and family law for numerous continuing legal education programs sponsored by the New York State Bar Association Family Law Section, throughout the Capital District and New York State. Ms. Rutkey has also lectured to Supreme Court and Family Court confidential court attorneys at a training program sponsored by the New York State Office of Court Administration. She has also lectured at a continuing legal education program for the Fourth Judicial District Federated Bar Association. She has also lectured to the Schenectady County Legal Professionals and to the Schenectady County Bar Association. In addition to handling divorce, family law, custody, support matters, trials and appeals, Ms. Rutkey also represents both biological and adoptive parents in New York adoptions, interstate adoptions and international adoptions.

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