Connecticut Family Law and Family-Violence Defense
Divorce, custody, and support cases are decided on details — and sometimes they arrive alongside a criminal charge. Attorney Daniel M. Morton handles both, from one office, so the two cases don’t work against each other.
Consultations by appointment. Criminal representation is limited to Connecticut matters arising from domestic or family-violence incidents.
Two connected areas of Connecticut practice.
Morton Family & Criminal Law focuses on two connected areas of Connecticut practice.
Family law
Divorce, custody and parenting time, child support, post-judgment modification, enforcement and contempt, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements — in the Hartford Judicial District and the surrounding courts.
Family-violence criminal defense
Domestic and family-violence criminal defense. Connecticut criminal charges arising from a domestic or family-violence incident. This is a limited criminal practice — the firm does not handle unrelated DUI, drug, theft, or other criminal matters.
Civil restraining orders. A restraining order under C.G.S. §46b-15 is a civil family matter, not a criminal case. The firm handles these from either side, subject to conflict screening.
Two courthouses. Two schedules. One strategy.
An arrest during a separation creates two files in two courthouses on two schedules. A protective order entered at arraignment can change your parenting time before the family court has ruled on anything. What you say in one case can follow you into the other.
Most firms handle one side or the other, and the client ends up coordinating between two lawyers who have never spoken. Attorney Morton has practiced on both sides of that line — family litigation and criminal defense arising from family violence — and can see how a decision in one court lands in the other.
Focused representation for the legal issues that shape family transitions.
Divorce
Connecticut is not a 50/50 state, and the court can reach property you brought into the marriage.
Custody & Visitation
Legal custody, physical custody, and the parenting plan that sets actual time.
Child Support
Guideline calculation, deviations, and Connecticut’s college-support statute.
Domestic & Family Violence Criminal Defense
Connecticut criminal charges arising from a domestic or family-violence incident.
Daniel M. Morton
Family litigation, civil restraining orders, and Connecticut criminal defense arising from domestic or family violence.
A Glastonbury native with roughly a decade of litigation experience.
Daniel M. Morton is a Glastonbury native. He has been admitted to practice in Connecticut since 2017 and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut since 2018, with roughly a decade of litigation experience and extensive first-chair work in contested divorce, custody, post-judgment, restraining-order, and domestic-violence matters.
He previously served as a staff attorney with Connecticut Legal Services, where he was the principal family-law attorney in the Waterbury office.
He opened Morton Family & Criminal Law to serve Greater Hartford from an office in the town he grew up in.
J.D.
Mississippi College School of Law, 2014
Connecticut
Admitted 2017
Bachelor's, cum laude
University of New Haven, 2010
U.S. District Court
District of Connecticut, 2018
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Glastonbury first. Central Connecticut and beyond.
The office is in Glastonbury, and family matters here are heard in the Hartford Judicial District at 90 Washington Street. Family-violence arrests from Glastonbury, East Hartford, Manchester, Marlborough, and South Windsor are arraigned at G.A. 12, 410 Center Street in Manchester.
The firm accepts matters throughout Central Connecticut, including Hartford, West Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester, South Windsor, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, Newington, New Britain, Middletown, and the Vernon area — and in Norwich and New London in southeastern Connecticut.
Every case starts with a conversation.
Every case starts with a conversation about what you’re facing and what it would take to handle it.
If you have been arrested and have a court date tomorrow, call rather than using the form.
OFFICE
2837-A Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033
HOURS
Monday–Thursday 9:00–5:00
Friday 9:00–1:00