About Timothy J
Timothy J Colgan earned his J.D. from Widener University in 1993 after finishing a B.S. in Marketing and Business Law at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park in 1987. He moved into legal work during a duration when opportunity dispute resolution and courtroom-involved family offerings have been increasing in Pennsylvania. That instructional foundation knowledgeable a career that has mixed litigation, facilitated negotiation and coordinated household services.
Early in his career he served as an attorney examiner for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Medical CAT Fund in 1996. He then joined The Wiley Group as an affiliate in 1997 and have become a companion there in 1998. He later entered a partnership at Colgan Marzzacco LLC in 2008 and opened his own firm, Colgan & Associates, LLC, in 2011.
Over the years Colgan has taken on roles within the court system as well as in private practice. He served as a custody mediator for the York County Court of Common Pleas from 2010 to 2015. In 2019 he started serving as a parenting coordinator for the identical court, a role he continues to maintain. Those appointments reflect an ongoing engagement with family law matters treated through both court and alternative dispute decision processes.
Colgan maintains memberships in numerous expert organizations. He belongs to the Pennsylvania State Bar and the York County Bar Association. He has been active in Collaborative Professionals of Central Pennsylvania and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals since 2007. Those affiliations align together with his involvement in mediation and collaborative regulation approaches.
His practice history indicates a mix of traditional firm responsibilities and roles that help court-managed family offerings. At The Wiley Group he moved from associate to partner in consecutive years. Later partnerships and the founding of his personal firm display a development toward managing both client things and firm operations. The York County Court appointments point out trust from the courtroom in dealing with sensitive parenting and custody matters.
Colgan is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and holds an inactive license in New Jersey. He works out of workplaces in York, Pennsylvania, and keeps a primary office. He handles custody evaluations, facilitated negotiation, parenting coordination and associated family regulation work across the ones roles. He presently focuses his practice on family regulation, custody disputes, mediation and collaborative law.
