Legal help across Union County: family, estate, injury, and civil matters

Family law, estate planning, personal injury, civil, business, real estate, SSDI, and more, serving Union County, New Jersey.

Simon Law Group handles family law, estate planning, probate, personal injury, civil litigation, business, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure, workers' compensation, SSDI, and appellate matters in Union County.

Union County practice scope

Union County matters are not all the same just because they share a county name. The useful local question is usually venue, court process, office access, records, travel, local property or employment patterns, and which Simon Law Group practice group should evaluate the issue first.

This page is the general Union County service hub. The county-specific divorce page remains available for Family Part details, but Simon Law Group's local work is broader than divorce. We handle family law, estate planning, probate, personal injury, civil litigation, business litigation, legal malpractice, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, workers' compensation, SSDI, appeals, criminal defense, DUI/DWI, expungement matters in this county.

County seat: Elizabeth. Listed county court location: Union County Courthouse, Elizabeth. Nearby Simon Law Group location: Somerville office.

County facts

  • County: Union County, New Jersey
  • Formed: 1857
  • County seat: Elizabeth
  • Listed county court location: Union County Courthouse, Elizabeth
  • Population:601,863(2025 Census estimate)
  • Nearby office:Somerville office
  • Criminal/DUI: Accepted in this county in the practice areas the firm handles.

Known for

  • Elizabeth port and airport economy
  • commuter rail towns
  • downtown Westfield and Summit
  • dense business and transportation corridors

Official starting points

How to use this county hub

Union County intake guide

Who this guide helps

Transportation and warehouse workers, retail employees, information-sector professionals, logistics businesses, and people with digital or commercial-property records.

What to sort out

Shift and logistics records, digital assets, retail operations, and commercial-property documents may be distributed across employers, platforms, entities, property managers, and carriers. Port and airport jobs add drayage manifests, chassis rental invoices, and customs paperwork to the usual employment records, and information-sector employers here contribute repository access logs and licensing renewals.

Court and agency routing

This Union County page is a routing aid for intake and does not select a filing division. The appropriate family, civil, criminal, probate, commercial, municipal, or agency path depends on the matter, and the Union Vicinage directory provides official court information.

Official court source: NJ Courts Union Vicinage.

Three intake decisions

  1. Clarify whether the person is a shift worker, driver, warehouse employee, retailer, technology employee, business principal, commercial-property stakeholder, party to a lease, customer, or fiduciary.
  2. Organize schedules and timecards, dispatch and delivery logs, inventory and sales reports, platform exports, digital agreements, leases, and property financials by custodian.
  3. Identify whether the immediate route may involve Family Part, Civil Part, probate or Surrogate processing, municipal court, a workplace or business agency, or another forum.

Official local evidence: The NJDOL Union County report identifies a 61.2% increase in information-sector employment over the report comparison period ending in 2024. View the 2026 NJDOL county report using 2024 data.Source checked July 12, 2026.

Prepare for intake: Bring employment and logistics records, inventory or platform exports, entity documents, commercial-property papers, and current court or agency notices to an intake evaluation.

Services in Union County

Family law and divorce

County-specific Family Part issues, divorce, custody, support, alimony, mediation, domestic violence, and post-judgment work in Union County.

Estate planning, probate, and elder law

Planning and administration work connected to Union County families, homes, Surrogate filings, fiduciary duties, and long-term-care concerns.

Personal injury and insurance

Injury and insurance matters involving local roads, premises, PIP benefits, medical proof, damages, and post-accident documentation.

Civil, business, and real estate

Disputes involving contracts, businesses, professional duties, real estate, title issues, appeals, and damages.

Financial and benefits matters

Financial distress, foreclosure, workplace injury, and disability-benefit matters where court deadlines, agency rules, and records matter.

Criminal defense and DUI/DWI

Criminal-defense and DUI/DWI work is accepted in Union County in the practice areas the firm handles, along with the firm's civil, family, estate, injury, business, real estate, benefits, and appellate practices.

Local issue patterns

Professional practices, commuter income, inherited or premarital assets, dense transportation corridors, and business interests often affect Union County cases. These local facts are not a substitute for legal analysis, but they help identify which documents, valuations, medical records, account statements, court filings, or agency records should be gathered first.

Communities served

Simon Law Group handles Union County matters involving clients in Elizabeth, Westfield, Summit, Cranford, Plainfield, Union, Rahway, Scotch Plains, Linden, New Providence, and nearby communities where venue or client needs connect the matter to this county.

Useful resources for Union County matters

Damages explained

How tort, contract, punitive, treble, insurance, and proof issues affect case value.

DUI / DWI defense

Criminal/DUI work is accepted in Union County in the practice areas the firm handles.

Expungement

Eligibility, Clean Slate, petitions, objections, and court handling.

Discuss aUnion County matter

Start with a confidential consultation request. Your request is confidential. If you schedule a phone consultation, call the firm at the appointment time.

Reviewed by Laura Simon, MBA, Executive Director, Simon Law Group, LLC · May 2026

Discuss a Union County matter

Start with a confidential consultation request. Your request is confidential. If you schedule a phone consultation, call the firm at the appointment time.

Or call directly(800) 709-1131