He is a lawyer who has been a town justice since 1961.

Her father is the town justice of Monroe and a lawyer there.

All three town justices can perform marriage ceremonies in Spanish, he said.

Both were held overnight before being released on no bail by a town justice the next day.

"If a town wants to have a town justice, put it to a vote," he said.

All town justices were originally part of a town's board.

James Ketcham, a retired town justice, is also concerned about the financial effect of incorporation.

State law does not required that a town justice be a lawyer.

But as a town justice on call 24 hours a day, she did not bother to redecorate the old family room.

Her father, a lawyer, is a town justice of Mamaroneck.