MS. JAIGOBIND’S BIOGRAPHY

Christine Delfino Jaigobind, an experienced trial attorney, has been practicing law for over 20 years in Virginia and New York.  She graduated with a B. A. degree in sociology and religion, magna cum laude from New York University - Washington Square University College and elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1979 and awarded a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law in 1983.

Ms. Jaigobind was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York in 1984 and in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1998. During the first several years of practice in New York, she handled civil litigation, real estate, trust and estates and general corporate law and family law.  However, in 1989 she found her niche when she became a Law Guardian, a lawyer for children, in New York City. As a prerequisite to becoming a Law Guardian and a staff attorney for a law firm that represented children exclusively, Ms. Jaigobind had extensive training prior to and throughout her tenure as a Law Guardian, including child interview techniques, sex abuse validation, trial tactics, etc.  Prior to relocating to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia in 1997 where she now practices exclusively, Ms. Jaigobind represented thousands of children in over a 1,000 cases of child abuse, neglect, custody, termination of parental rights, foster care review cases, juvenile delinquency and PINS/CHINS (persons/children in need of supervision/services). 

Ms. Jaigobind left her position as a Law Guardian for children and began her New York private practice in 1993 with an emphasis on children’s rights and domestic relations.   She later relocated to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1997 after she was offered a position with a large law firm.  However, in 1998 Ms. Jaigobind, a single parent herself, then chose to venture out on her own to form  “The Custody Center, P.C.” – a law firm dedicated exclusively to family law. Since then, Ms. Jaigobind has handled hundreds of cases and has represented men and women, mothers and fathers, stepparents, grandparents and foster parents in various types of family law cases with the majority of her practice consisting of complex contested child custody and divorce cases.  She is a Member of the Family Law Organization of Greater Hampton Roads.  Although she remains steadfast in her passion for justice, her role as parent is of paramount importance and is the bond that she shares with the people she represents.