Hi, I’m Madelaine Martin.
I built Fitz & Morri around a simple observation: people moving through family law litigation carry an enormous administrative load — and, beneath it, a strategic one they rarely have room for, because so much of their attention goes to how things look for the case. The person who could hold both didn't exist, so I became that person.
What I Believe
The person on the other side of your case is a person — no matter how they have treated you, or how they have made you feel. We do not villainize anyone. We document behavior, not character, and we hold that line for everyone involved, including the people who have hurt you. Not because they have earned the grace, but because it is how you protect yourself: a clear, factual record speaks for itself, and it is far harder to argue with than anger.
We are not here to build a case against a person. We are here to protect you — and, when it calls for it, to protect your children.
My Approach
The Why
Your life did not stop because this case was opened. But it is not carrying on as it was, either. You are still parenting — maybe now across two houses, possibly on a schedule someone else helped set, most likely through weeks that are quiet in a way you never expected them to be. You are still running a household — but homework and weekends somehow look different now. You are still planning a future — except the one you had built is gone, and you are drafting another in real time, without much say in the timeline.
This is the part people underestimate: you are not just keeping the old life running. You are reinventing what every ordinary thing looks like — dinner, holidays, money, mornings — while still carrying the weight of what it used to be. Two full jobs at once, the rebuilding and the reckoning, and the case lands on top of both.
So my approach starts there: not with the case in isolation, but with the whole shifting life it dropped into.
The How
I keep your case file current, manage the communication between co-parents and third parties, track what matters, and prepare you for what comes next — so you walk into every meeting clear and ready, and your attorney's time goes to the work only they can do. I'm not your lawyer, your therapist, or your coach. I'm the person you call between touch-points — holding the administrative side and helping you think strategically about everything that is not legal strategy, so you can stay in your own life while this happens.