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Terri L.B. Partridge, who heads the firm's family law group, has held the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating, AV, since 1996. She has been listed as one of the top Family Law Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America,  Best Lawyers New England 2015, Boston's Top Rated Lawyers of 2015 and Massachusetts Super Lawyers. Throughout her 27-year career, she has handled numerous divorce cases involving complex issues such as the validity of postnuptial and antenuptial agreements and trusts; and the valuation of closely held businesses, alternative investments, trusts, unique real estate, and various types of business entities. In addition to her busy divorce practice, she represents clients in child custody, paternity, grandparent visitation, contempt, modification, post divorce and related actions.

Peter A. Kuperstein is a partner in the Family Law practice group at Prince Lobel. He has been practicing exclusively in all aspects of family law matters for over 25 years. Peter’s experience in family law matters includes issues ranging from uncontested actions to highly contested cases involving complex financial issues, business valuations, custody disputes and appeals, as well as prenuptial agreements, paternity actions, modifications, and contempt actions. Peter is the partner in charge of the firm’s Andover Family Law Conference Center.. Peter has extensive appellate experience and has authored over 35 appellate briefs, as well as a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, on a wide range of family law issues. He has been involved in several leading family law cases on such issues as alimony, child support, property division, custody, parent coordinators, jurisdiction, and prenuptial agreements.. Peter was named a U.S. News and World Report “Best Lawyer in America” in Family Law, Family Law Mediation and Appellate Practice since 2021, and consistently recognized as a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” in the field of family law in Boston Magazine. Peter is a trained mediator and frequently is appointed by the Courts as a conciliator. He has also served as a Guardian ad Litem and appointed under the Attorney Representing Children Program (ARC) in the Probate and Family Court.

Over 40 years of success.  Specializing in family and divorce law, criminal defense, attorney discipline proceedings and civil litigation.  The Law Firm of Matthew H. Feinberg provides the highest level of skill, knowledge and creativity to achieve the most favorable results for its clients.  Attorney Feinberg recognizes that in the areas of his specialties, clients confront life-altering challenges:  loss of liberty, disintegration of family, loss of reputation, loss of hard earned assets.  As a result, Attorney Feinberg is dedicated to sophisticated and aggressive advocacy while maintaining a personal, hands-on relationship with his clients.  In all cases, the goal is to collaborate with the client to achieve a successful resolution of these most difficult issues.

Jennifer Silva is the senior associate at Mavrides Law. Her practice focuses on divorce, paternity, child custody and support including the removal of children from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, modification, contempt, and appellate practice. Attorney Silva has represented clients in divorce cases involving the valuation of business interests, commercial and residential real estate, as well as high asset and complex divorce. In addition, she frequently works with expert witnesses including real estate appraisers, business appraisers, and mental health professionals. Attorney Silva brings her dedication, experience, and compassion to each of her cases.. Attorney Silva serves as the Vice President and sits on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers. She is also a member of the Family Law section of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Boston Bar Association.

I have been practicing civil litigation for over 20 years with a concentration in the areas of Family Law and Probate Litigation.. I represent clients in all aspects of family law including, divorce proceedings, paternity actions, removal actions, modification and contempt actions, child custody disputes, domestic violence, and alimony and child support issues. I regularly prepare and negotiate pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. I have extensive experience in representing clients in complex financial issues relating to divorce such as business and real estate valuation, structuring alimony and child support payments to maximize income tax deductibility, and properly analyzing the tax implications when dividing sizeable marital assets. I am on the New England Advisory Board of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators ("AACFL")  and have earned the designation of ("CFL" - Ceritified Financial Litigator) from the AACFL.. I have significant experience representing clients in child custody disputes and work closely with Court appointed Guardians Ad Litem and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. I have experience litigating matters involving issues relating to de facto parents and same sex relationships.. I am skilled in the complexities of probate litigation. I represent clients in will contests, actions regarding the interpretation and reformation of trusts, guardianship and conservatorship actions. I actively represent clients who are fiduciaries and beneficiaries regarding the proper administration of trusts and estates. I have successfully represented numerous attorneys and professional fiduciaries in contested proceedings in the Probate and Family Court and Superior Court.. I have been recognized and acknoweldged by various peer review publications.  I repeatedly have been named a "Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyer" and a "Top 100 New England Super Lawyer" in Massachusetts Super Lawyers published by the Thomson Reuters rating service in Boston Magazine. I am ranked at the highest level of legal ability, "AV," in the benchmark Martindale-Hubble Law Directory. I also am listed in the 2013-2017editions of Best Lawyers in America® a highly esteemed, national peer review guide of attorneys.

I am a domestic relations attorney who assists clients in all areas of family law. In my nearly 15 years of trial practice, I have litigated numerous highly contested matters including divorce, equitable distribution, custody, child support, and alimony, among others. In addition, I regularly employs all modes of alternative dispute resolution to help clients reach peaceful, expeditious resolutions.. I am committed to providing the best possible outcome for her clients and to ensuring that they fully understand the legal, financial, and personal implications of their cases. I work to resolve conflicts and complex family disputes between parties in the most equitable way possible, attempting to minimize the trauma to parents and children during a particularly delicate time.. I have worked extensively with victims of domestic violence. While practicing law in Virginia, I worked with the Tahirih Justice Center, an organization dedicated to protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence. Before joining Prince Lobel, Adrianne was a name partner and founder of Fayez & Ramos, PLLC, a well-respected family law firm in Fairfax, Virginia. I began my legal career as law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court.. .

Gary Todd is a Founding Partner at Todd & Weld LLP where he is recognized locally and nationally as a preeminent family law practitioner specializing in Domestic Relations and Probate litigation. He has successfully negotiated, mediated and tried family law issues ranging from divorce, custody and parental rights to complex support, property division, removal, modification, and contempt actions, both at the trial court and appellate levels. Mr. Todd has drafted and negotiated numerous prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Mr. Todd has been honored in "Best Lawyers in America"; "Massachusetts Super Lawyer"; "Top Attorneys in New England” in the area of Divorce, Mr. Todd has been awarded the “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbeell which is awarded to an attorney with the highest possible peer rating.Mr. Todd served on: the Family Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association; Family Law Council and the Steering Committee of Boston Bar Association Family Law Council (co-chairman); the Massachusetts Association of Trial Lawyers; Board of Directors of Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem, Inc., Board of Directors of Association of Family, Court and Community Professionals; Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Mr. Todd has lectured on domestic relations law for the Massachusetts Bar Association; Boston Bar Association; the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education; Suffolk University School of Law; and Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy program. Mr. Todd has appeared as a Special Legal Analyst in Divorce on the Fox National News Channel, Channel 56 News; WBZ Channel 4 News; WBZ radio; and as an expert in domestic relations for the Boston Globe. Mr. Todd has authored articles on Divorce and Family Law in several legal publications, and has been a panelist for numerous Massachusetts and Boston Bar Association continuing legal education seminars.

Gabriel Cheong is the owner of Infinity Law Group LLC based in Quincy, MA. Gabriel has spent the last decade helping families navigate the family court system with divorce and custody issues. Gabriel’s family philosophy is to keep children out of court disputes as much as possible but sometimes it can’t be avoided, and when that happens, Gabriel will be your guide and advocate through the court system.. Gabriel also helps with prenuptial agreements, mediation, guardian ad litem investigations, and estate planning.. Gabriel has offices in Boston, Quincy, and Needham, MA.

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.

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.

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.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Child Custody attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.