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Peter M. Barlow is a founding partner of Kates & Barlow, PC.. In 1987, after four years of service in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he spent considerable time prosecuting court-martials, Mr. Barlow was hired by Widett, Slater & Goldman, PC to be part of Robert Kates’ Family Law Group. Over the next twenty years, Mr. Barlow worked diligently to become one of the preeminent family law attorneys in Massachusetts. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Barlow was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP. Prior to that, he was a partner at the former firm of Goldstein & Manello, PC, and at Epstein Becker & Green, PC.. Mr. Barlow has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer since 2004 and is listed in the legal profession’s most respected peer-review publication, Woodward and White’s The Best Lawyers in America for Family Law. He has accepted judicial appointments as a Discovery Master and as counsel to a soldier serving in Iraq. Mr. Barlow has written articles on family law topics and is a frequent lecturer on a variety of subjects including: the introduction of expert testimony at trial; high conflict child custody cases; jurisdictional issues; trial advocacy; paternity; payment of college expenses; the Guardian ad litem process; and child removal actions.. Mr. Barlow has extensive experience in litigation, appearing predominately before the Probate & Family Courts throughout Eastern Massachusetts. He also has traveled to other counties, states and countries to serve his clients.. •  Litigating cases involving the valuation of closely held corporations, residential and commercial real estate; the treatment of inherited property, attribution of income, enforceability of prenuptial agreements; and all aspects of alimony and child support;•  Negotiating and drafting comprehensive divorce, premarital, post-marital, cohabitation, paternity, and post-divorce modification agreements, including detailed parenting plans and complex property divisions involving closely held corporations, tax provisions, and support provisions;•  Handling high conflict custody disputes, child removal actions, and incidents and allegations of spousal and child abuse;•  Discreetly representing professional athletes and other public figures in a variety of domestic and paternity related matters;•  Preparing appellate briefs and arguments for the Massachusetts Appeals Court;•  Providing pro bono representation to indigent clients through his membership in the Massachusetts Senior Lawyers for Justice.

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.

Ms. Kosinski is an associate in Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on complex business, commercial, and construction disputes. She adds a diverse and extensive skillset to the firm, possessing previous professional experience in the legal, economic development, and non-profit management fields.. Before entering law school, Ms. Kosinski was a project manager for several economic development programs in the United States and Haiti from 1998 to 2004. She has extensive experience working with governments, international organizations and private donors to create and implement various projects including development programs focused on micro-credit lending, education, and child welfare. Ms. Kosinski also worked as a paralegal at a law firm specializing in business immigration.. During law school, Ms. Kosinski worked as a law clerk at a civil litigation firm in Massachusetts. She also completed an internship for the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, where she acted as the primary client contact and representative in housing, family law, and social security benefits matters.. Prior to joining Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, Ms. Kosinski was an associate at Adler, Pollock & Sheehan.

Mr. Heneghan specializes in Family Law, including divorce, complicated custody issues, child support, and modification of judgments. He has extensive Court experience and training with respect to custody cases that include Court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem investigations and/or the Department of Children and Families (formerly the Department of Social Services). He also has far-reaching experience in family law litigation involving removal of children from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; complex jurisdictional issues; de facto parents; and paternity cases. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School. Mr. Heneghan brings in-depth knowledge and practice to issues involving the division of marital assets, child support, alimony, and other complex financial matters.. Mr. Heneghan has worked closely with founding partners Robert J. Kates and Peter M. Barlow since 2002, first, as an associate at Epstein Becker & Green, PC, Boston, and later, as Special Counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston, where he was a member of the Family Law Practice group of the Litigation Department.

Mr. Barriere has extensive litigation experience in the areas of divorce, abuse prevention orders, custody disputes, actions involving the Department of Children and Families (“DCF”), paternity actions, and post-divorce modification and enforcement of alimony, child support, and other judgments. He routinely negotiates and drafts prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and divorce agreements. Mr. Barriere also serves Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties as a trained family law mediator. As a neutral mediator, he helps couples amicably resolve family law issues – such as divorces, custody and support disputes, and paternity matters - through informed negotiation. He is also a trained conciliator, certified by the Barnstable County Bar Association.. In his probate litigation practice, Mr. Barriere has represented donors, trustees, executors, and beneficiaries in will contests, fiduciary disputes, and equity actions in the probate court.. Mr. Barriere has extensive experience working with athletes, screenwriters, actors, songwriters, and musicians in both litigation and non-litigation contexts.

Josh Lewin represents both businesses and individuals in a variety of civil litigation matters. His extensive experience includes complex business disputes, breach of contract and unfair competition litigation, catastrophic injury and death claims, discrimination suits, insurance coverage disputes, as well as property and environmental claims. Josh also has extensive experience in the utility and energy industries, having represented the largest regional telecommunications, natural gas and electricity providers. Through trial, arbitration, mediation, and negotiations, Josh has achieved positive outcomes for his clients in a variety of different cases.. Josh has handled lawsuits from inception through trial and appeal in both the state and federal courts. In 2009, Josh successfully defended consumer claims in the federal district court under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and prevailed on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in a case which decided several issues of first impression. See Chiang v. Verizon New England Inc., 595 F. 3d 26 (First Cir. 2010). In 2013, the Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a Superior Court jury's verdict in favor of Josh's clients against their former attorney for charging an unfair and excessive fee and affirmed the trial Judge's award of triple damages and attorney's fees under the Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as chapter 93A. See Landry v.  Haartz, 83 Mass. App. Ct. 1135 (2013). In addition to his regular civil caseload, in March 2009, Josh was sworn in as a special assistant district attorney for Suffolk County. In that capacity, he prosecuted white collar criminal cases for the Special Prosecutions Bureau on a pro bono basis.

I have been practicing all aspects of family law for nearly thirty years and those who do this sort of work can tell you that it takes a great deal of patience, compassion and understanding to do it well.  I live just north of Boston with my awesome wife and our four (yes, four!) great kids.  I am continuing to work on this Avvo profile because I think it is a great service to the community.  I hope to have some pictures and reviews and videos up soon.

I am a trial attorney, focusing on family disputes like divorce or custody matters.. As a family law or, as I prefer, "divorce attorney," I tend to handle higher conflict cases, but am always happy to assist in drafting agreements in amicable cases as well. I do, in fact, work to settle even difficult cases by agreement. That, if it can be done, usually leads to better results than anything a judge will do after trial. That said, an agreement is not always possible. I know it is shocking to hear, but sometimes you do have to fight when getting divorced. That is most of what I do.

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.

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 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.

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.