Cynthia D. Cartier

About Cynthia D. Cartier

Attorney Cynthia D. Cartier is a partner with Cartier & Bower law firm, which has law offices in Guilford and North Haven, Connecticut. A top-ranked lawyer with more than 25 years of total legal experience, Ms. Cartier provides exceptional counsel and support to a diverse range of clients throughout New Haven and Hartford counties and all along the Connecticut shoreline who have legal needs involving any of the following:

ú ÿ ÿ ÿ Divorce mediation

ú ÿ ÿ ÿ Collaborative law

ú ÿ ÿ ÿ Estate planning and administration

ú ÿ ÿ ÿ Elder law

Over the course of her legal career, Ms. Cartier has achieved remarkable success helping her clients through their divorces while helping them achieve their goals and the positive outcomes they seek as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. To that end, she prefers to use mediation and collaboration to help her clients resolve their conflicts and reach favorable agreements without the need for expensive, stressful and time-consuming litigation.

During the same time, Ms. Cartier has also assisted numerous individuals and families with protecting their assets and loved ones for the future while helping them create lasting legacies through estate planning. At all turns, she provides the highly personalized counsel her clients need to make the best-informed decisions, and she has gained a reputation for her compassion and integrity along with her unwavering commitment to those she serves.

In honor for her outstanding professionalism and service, Ms. Cartier has earned consistent recognition as being among the top family law attorneys in her region. She has also received designation as one of the 10 Best Family Law Attorneys in the state of Connecticut by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. She has also received a listing in the Worldwide Who?s Who of Executives in 2013, and the Attorney & Practice Magazine voted her a Top 10 Family Law Attorney in 2017 and 2018.

A 1988 graduate of Upsala College, Ms. Cartier obtained her Juris Doctor from Widener University Delaware Law School in 1992. She also received her Master of Law in insurance law from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2010. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, and she is an active member of various local, state and national legal organizations.