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Handle all phases of domestic relations practice, including drafting antenuptial agreements, preparing and arguing motions, taking and defending depositions, mediation, negotiation, trial, post-trial motions and appellate practice. Handle primarily complex, high net worth cases presenting sophisticated and cutting edge legal and financial issues. Special interest in assisting parents with resolving their cases in a personalized matter which best preserves their ability to coparent effectively and meaningfully in the best interest of their children.

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Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).  Super Lawyers - Rising Stars (2015 - Present). Licensed in 2003, David Wilkinson has devoted his entire career to family law and divorce matters.  David has handled countless dissolution of marriage actions, paternity cases, and domestic violence matters.  He has litigated contentious cases involving well known individuals, but he has also handled cases simply by helping clients get the correct paperwork filed.  David served the court as a temporary judge in the past, and was also a supervising attorney for 7 years for the Community Law Project run by the California Western School of Law and the University of California at San Diego.  David is a past recipient of the Judy Keep award for his service to the community.  David is a member of the California and Massachusetts bars.

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DONALD G. TYE is a founding partner and co-chair of the Domestic Relations Practice Group at Prince Lobel Tye LLP in Boston (a multi-practice firm which handles matters of local, regional, national, and international reach). He has forty years of experience as a trial attorney, a guardian ad litem, a master, a mediator, a conciliator, an attorney for children (including the Massachusetts ARC program), and an arbitrator.. He has prepared and argued numerous cases to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court. Mr. Tye is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). He was national co-chair of national AAML’s legislation committee; during 2009 and 2010 he served on its Special Concerns for Children Committee, which was responsible for updating and revising the AAML’s Standards for Attorneys for Children in Custody or Visitation proceedings.; In 2014 he was appointed to AAML’s Impact of Special Needs Children Committee; and in 2013, 2015, and 2017 he was appointed to be a member of its Continuing Legal Education Committee. He was president of the AAML Massachusetts chapter from 2005 through 2007 and received the Massachusetts chapter’s “President’s Award” in 1998 and 2004. Since 1999, he has been a member of the family law curriculum advisory committee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and was co-chair from 2006 through 2008. He is a member of the Family Law Section of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations and was appointed to the MBA Family Law Section council, on which he has served since 2010.. He is an editor emeritus on the board of editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. His work has also been published in the Massachusetts Family Law Journal, the Boston Bar Journal, the ABA’s Family Advocate, Massachusetts Bar Lawyers’ Journal, Best of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Journal, and ABA Family Law Quarterly. A frequent lecturer and panelist, he has lectured and conducted workshops and seminars in the areas of trial practice, divorce, and child-related issues at Harvard Law School; Boston College Law School; Northeastern University Law School; Suffolk University School of Law; MCLE and its Family Law Institute; Brown University Medical Center; Boston University Graduate School of Social Work; the American Psychological Association; the Boston public schools (Partners in Education, Inc.); the Maine, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations; the ABA Family Law Section annual meetings in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2011, and in 2015 for the ABA Family Law Section Fall CLE in Portland, Oregon; the AAML annual meeting in Chicago in 2013, and in 2015; the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers; the Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem (MAGAL), and in 2017 at the AAML AFCC Conference “Advanced Issues in Child Custody: Evaluation, Litigation and Settlement” in San Diego, CA, and at the Annual Meeting in Chicago of the AAML CLE he will be co-presenting on “the Intersection of Alienation and Custodial Issues”.. Active in the community, Mr. Tye has been a Board Member and a vice president of Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, the nation’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. From 2009 through 2014 he was a member of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick); and has been active on the civil rights committee of the Anti-Defamation League. In 2012 he was appointed to serve as a member of the statewide taskforce Voice of the Child by the then-chief judge of the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court Department. In January 2015, he was appointed to a three-year term as a hearing officer by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers; and is a member of the Board of MAGAL, Inc.. In May 2018 he received MCLE’s Annual Scholar- Mentor Award for his life time contributions to Family Law in Ma. (Four of these awards are presented annually by the premier CLE program in Massachusetts among all fields of practice among Ma. lawyers).. Since 2004, he has been recognized as a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer.” He has also been named as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts” as featured in Boston Magazine and as a “Top Attorney in New England” by New England Super Lawyers. He was coeditor of the “Domestic Relations” chapter in Summary of Basic Law, a selection of the Massachusetts Practice Series (published by West Publishing Company), was editor of the “Divorce” chapter in the Massachusetts Bar Association publication, Traps for the Unwary, and in Fall 2017 his article “Preferences and Voices of Children in Massachusetts and Beyond” was published in the ABA Family Law Quarterly. The article he co-authored, Navigation of the Culture of the Immigrant Experience in the Family Courts, will appear in the in Fall 2017 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Mr. Tye is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and its Brown School of Social Work (M.S.W.),and Tufts University.

David E. Cherny is a founding partner of the Boston Law firm of Atwood & Cherny, P.C., a nationally recognized law firm concentrating in the practice of complex matrimonial litigation at both the trial and appellate court levels.. Mr. Cherny and his firm have been involved in numerous family law cases and appellate decisions which have had a significant role in shaping family law in Massachusetts. He has served as appellate counsel in over 50 cases to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts Appeals Court, Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including cases such as: Pierce v. Pierce;  Dematteo v. Dematteo;  Zaleski v. Zalesski; Rodman v. Rodman; Young v. Young; and, Van Arsdale v. Van Arsdale.

Carlos A. Maycotte concentrates on family law and has practiced in the fields of international arbitration and litigation, business litigation, commercial litigation, and general civil litigation. He speaks several languages, and has native-speaker proficiency in Spanish, is fluent in Italian and German, and can understand written Portuguese.. Carlos was selected in 2017 as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters – a distinction awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has been a panelist at seminars and discussion groups on topics germane to family law. He has published articles and case comments on the Massachusetts Law Review and on the Boston Bar Journal. He sits on the steering committee of the family law section of the Boston Bar Association. He also earned his certification as a Certified Financial Litigator from the American Academy of Certified Financial Litigators.. As part of his family law practice, Carlos has represented clients in a variety of cases involving divorce, custody, removal, and paternity claims. Carlos has ample trial and court experience, representing clients in connection with child support, alimony, parenting time, and divorce modification issues. He has also negotiated dozens of settlement agreements on behalf of clients, helping them put a difficult situation behind them while securing the successful resolution of their cases.. In his international arbitration and litigation practice, Carlos represented a foreign, multi-national company in a complex, multi-million-dollar arbitration against a publicly-traded Massachusetts corporation, participating in a two-week liability hearing. Carlos has been invited to speak on panels at Boston University School of Law regarding his experience in international representation. He has also represented clients in other matters involving commercial and business litigation, including partnership disputes, contract disputes, and real estate disputes.. Carlos is Fitch Law Partners LLP's pro bono coordinator. He has extensive pro bono experience as a volunteer attorney for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), focusing on the representation of unaccompanied immigrant minors facing removal from the United States. Along with other attorneys at Fitch, he represented five minors in removal proceedings and in parallel litigation in state courts, successfully helping all five of them obtain permanent resident status and the dismissal of the removal proceedings. He has been interviewed and quoted for NBC News stories about the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors and which focused on one of his clients.. Carlos is actively involved in the Cornell community and serves as the Immediate Past President of the board of the Cornell Club of Boston. He is also a member of the Cornell Alumni Ambassadors Network, as well the Cornell Alumni Student-Mentoring Program.. Carlos is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D., 2010) and Cornell University (B.A., in English and in Government, 2007). As an undergraduate, he served as the editor of the opinion section for The Cornell Daily Sun. In law school, Carlos performed as an advocate in the Edward C. Stone Moot Court Competition and was a member of the criminal clinic, working as a student defender in both Boston Municipal Court and Boston Juvenile Court and, later, as a student prosecutor in Quincy District Court.

Attorney Scialdone's practice has focused exclusively on family law, probate, and elder law/estate planning for the last decade. Attorney Scialdone has represented countless clients throughout all of Massachusetts in both State and Federal Court.. Prior to opening his own law practice in 2015, Attorney Scialdone worked as an associate attorney at a small local law firm, gaining experience in many different areas of the law. He also worked in Paris, France at an international family law firm. Attorney Scialdone credits these experiences in being able to successfully run his own law practice.. Attorney Scialdone understands that all cases are different and deserving of a personalized approach. He prides himself on the reputation he has earned in the community. Attorney Scialdone is able to obtain favorable outcomes for clients by combining his zealous advocacy with strategic legal advice.

Attorney Jordana Kershner graduated from Tulane University in 2005 cum laude and, after interning in Congress and working as a litigation paralegal at the Washington D.C. firm now known as Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, PLLC, went on to receive her J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2011 cum laude. While at Boston University, Ms. Kershner was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Law & Medicine and interned at the Special Litigation Department of the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General, as well as for the Honorable Dominic J. Squatrito, District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut. In 2012, after a fellowship with Shelter Legal Services, Ms. Kershner joined Baskin & Associates, LLC, which became Baskin Kershner & Thorp, LLC in 2019. She has been exclusively representing clients in all areas of family law throughout her career.. Ms. Kershner is a certified conciliator. She is also a Co-Chair of the Communications Committee and member of the Steering Committee for the Family Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. Through her involvement with the Boston Bar Association, Ms. Kershner has authored articles for the Family Law Section Newsletter. She is also a volunteer for the Probate and Family Court Lawyer for the Day and SERV programs. Ms. Kershner is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and a member of the Boston Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association, and Greater Boston Family Law Inn of Court.

Attorney Elizabeth Hegner graduated from Boston College in 2012 and received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 2015 cum laude. While at Suffolk University Law School, Ms. Hegner was a Note Editor for Suffolk University Law Review and was a member of the Student Bar Association serving as a mentor to other students. During law school, Ms. Hegner interned for a solo practitioner assisting with the drafting, filing, and approval of Special Immigrant Juvenile Petitions in the Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts.Prior to joining Baskin Kershner & Thorp, LLC, Ms. Hegner worked with a solo practitioner in Somerville, Massachusetts focusing exclusively on family law. Currently, Ms. Hegner is an active member of both the Women’s Bar Association and Boston Bar Association. Her participation includes writing for the Boston Bar Association’s Family Law Section Newsletter and serving on the planning committee for the Women’s Bar Association’s annual Gala.

Attorney Crowley is a partner with Burns and Levinson in their Private Client Group. Attorney Crowley focuses her practice primarily on Probate and Trust Litigation and Family Law.

Attorney Coka is a family law attorney, focusing on divorce and custody litigation as well as matrimonial planning, prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements, removal actions, and complex marital asset division.. She is an experienced family law litigator and works to negotiate favorable settlements for her clients outside of the courtroom whenever possible.. Attorney Coka guides clients with compassion and honesty. Understanding that individuals are often facing the most emotionally, psychologically and financially challenging time of their lives, she takes the time and care to listen to their specific concerns, determine their needs and goals, and customize a strategy that achieves those goals, while being clear and forthright about the process.. Attorney Coka counsels clients as part of the Middlesex County Probate and Family Court’s Lawyer for the Day Program and is a certified Conciliator through the Norfolk County Bar Association Conciliation Program.

As a partner at Schmidt & Federico, P.C., my practice is concentrated in domestic relations, family law and probate litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels.  I've tried hundreds of case and have argued and been involved with a number of leading appellate cases involving divorce and family law practice, including those in the areas regarding the interpretation of the Alimony Reform Act (Chin vs. Merriot, 470 Mass. 527 & Holmes vs. Holmes, 467 Mass. 653), alimony (Wooters vs. Wooters, 42 Mass. App. Ct. 929), income attribution (C.D.L. vs. M.M.L., 72 . 146) and business valuations and pass through/K-1 income (Caveney vs. Caveney, 81 . 102).  I've also authored and co-authored a number of legal treatises, as well as a number of articles for the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations and Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly and have lectured on such topics as will contests, alimony and child support, child custody and visitation, equitable property division, contempt actions as well as on recent developments and changes in the law.

After graduating from law school, I clerked for two years for the justices of the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court. Since joining Schmidt & Federico, P.C. in 2001, my practice has focused in all areas of domestic relations and family law, including divorce, custody, modification and contempt actions. My cases include complex business valuation cases and custody matters as well as other complex family law cases.  I am also a trained conciliator.

A full service immigration law firm, the Law Office of Joy A. Cahaly has been providing comprehensive processing services for nonimmigrant visas, permanent residency or "green card" status, and naturalization for family based and employment based cases since 1998. Attorney Joy A. Cahaly provides personalized, efficient, and excellent service to individuals, families, small businesses, and corporations located in Massachusetts and throughout the U.S.A.. Reasonable flat legal fees available. Fluent in Spanish. Proficient in Italian and French. Born and raised in the Boston area, Attorney Cahaly has also studied abroad in Cordoba, Spain, and lived and worked in New York, New York in the publishing and fashion industries.. A longtime member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Wellesley College, attorney Joy A. Cahaly has dedicated her law practice exclusively to immigration and naturalization law including defensive representation in immigration court proceedings since 1998. We understand how difficult and intimidating immigration matters can be, and we are committed to providing personalized, compassionate, high quality legal services to our clients every step of the way. As the grandchild of Syrian and Italian immigrants, Joy A. Cahaly has devoted her career as an attorney to helping immigrants navigate the complex web of U.S. immigration laws in order to successfully obtain the desired results. Offices conveniently located on Federal Street in Boston, Massachusetts, easily accessible via public transportation and steps away from the Red and Orange lines.