Andrew T. Fitzgerald

Grob & Eirich, LLC

Andrew T. Fitzgerald, Esq., is a partner at Grob & Eirich and has over twenty (20) years of legal experience as both a judicial officer and attorney in adoption, child welfare, family formation, and complex custody/guardianship matters. Andrew’s practice focuses on adoption, child welfare, guardianship and custody cases, as well as mediation. Andrew represents prospective adoptive parents, foster parents, relatives, birth parents and serves as general counsel for numerous licensed adoption agencies in Colorado. Andrew's practice includes child adoptions, designated adoptions, interstate adoptions, stepparent adoptions, same sex adoptions, second parent adoptions, relative adoptions, disrupted adoptions, foster-parent adoptions, international adoptions, confirmatory adoptions and adoption subsidies. Andrew also represents intended parents and other individuals in discussing the risks and benefits of different avenues for family formation. Andrew is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana. In law school, Andrew volunteered for Amnesty International and headed the awareness committee. Andrew received his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree from Auburn University where he majored in English and was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. In 2011, Andrew was appointed as a Magistrate in the 1st Judicial District / Jefferson County, Colorado and worked as a judicial officer in Jefferson County through 2023. He was the presiding Magistrate and handled a variety of case types, including Adoptions, Juvenile Dependency and Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency, Domestic Relations, as well as County Civil and Criminal cases, including the Jefferson County problem-solving Courts. During his time as a Magistrate, Andrew served on the court’s Management Leadership Team, the Court Best Practices committee, and specifically the dependency and neglect system reform committee (DANSR). Andrew also served on the Juvenile Services Planning Committee, as well as Juvenile Review Board and chaired the First Judicial District problem-solving court steering committee and the First Judicial District policy and procedure sub-committee. Andrew has been long recognized as a gifted teacher and mentor to both attorneys and new judicial officers and has presented annually for the Colorado State Judicial branch at the New Judge Orientation and Advanced New Judge Orientation on the role of Magistrates, Magistrate Jurisdiction, and Protection Orders. Andrew has also presented annual legal presentation for new Court Appointed Special Advocated (“CASA") volunteers in Jefferson County. Additional lectures / presentations include: Protection Orders, Family Law Basics: Indirect Contempt Practice, as well as presentations for the 1st JD Bar Association CLE presentations “Alternative Enforcement: Enforcing Orders without Contempt” and “Domestic Practice: Motions to Restrict Parenting Time.”

 

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