About James Ruel

Attorney James Ruel is a member of the Family Law Practice Section of Ruel Ruel Burns Feldman & Britt, LLC. He is a founding partner of the Firm. He represents clients throughout the State of Connecticut in their efforts to resolve family disputes concerning child custody and dissolution of marriage. The associated issues in such matters include parental decision making as to healthcare, religion and education, parenting schedules, and sometimes the establishment of paternity. They also include the financial disputes associated with child support, alimony, and the distribution of property upon the dissolution of marriage.

Attorney Ruel has significant experience in resolving financial disputes involving closely-held businesses owned by one or the other spouse. In such matters, Attorney Ruel works with business valuation experts to describe and demonstrate to the other spouse, and potentially to a judge, the proper valuation method and calculation of value for any such business in a divorce.

Attorney Ruel has brought to resolution many cases involving clients who are employed in the medical, legal, and accounting fields. He has also represented many executives of Fortune 500 companies who receive stock options, restricted stock units, and the like. Attorney Ruel has been involved in the resolution of some cases with marital estates valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Attorney Ruel has extensive experience in litigating cases where a spouse’s interest in the income or principal of a substantial trust corpus is at issue. He has also been retained in certain matters to provide advice and counsel to the trustees of trusts, following the initiation of divorce proceedings by or against a trust beneficiary.