Family lawyers in Massachusetts

Cathy Marino

Firm: The Law Office Of Cathy A. Marino

28 Pauline Street , Winthrop , Massachusetts 02152 Zip code: 02152

Practice Areas: Family

Attorney Cathy Marino has built her practice by maintaining compassionate and personal relationships with her clients and her community. She is well known in the legal community, having practiced at all levels of the judiciary, including arguing before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Attorney Marino has successfully represented hundreds of clients, and her practice has been built upon client referrals. Clients have named her as the Executor of their wills as well as Trustee of numerous complex Trusts.. She was appointed by Governor William Weld in 1989 to serve as a Public Administratrix for Suffolk County and had continued in that capacity for twenty years. She has been appointed as a Guardian Ad Litem, Trustee and Master by judges in the Suffolk and Middlesex Courts, and she has also served as a Receiver in complex divorce litigations. Her experience is diverse and therefore she has developed long-standing relationships with the judiciary, the bar and the court personnel. Her trial experience includes criminal, civil, bankruptcy, probate and all areas of domestic relations. She has also negotiated favorable settlements for her clients in the above areas of practice as well.. Attorney Marino was born and raised in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and is a 1981 graduate of Winthrop High School. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University in 1985, majoring in Political Science with minors in Economics and Philosophy. Attorney Marino obtained her Juris Doctorate in 1988 as a graduate of the Boston University School of Law, where she was an Edward F. Hennessey Scholar. She was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1989. She began her practice in Revere, Massachusetts, in 1989 in association with Attorney Leonard E. Pass. In 1995, she opened her full-service law firm in its current Winthrop location.. Attorney Marino is an active member of her community and has been a member of the Winthrop School Committee and Advisory Board. She served as a Town Meeting Member and on the Board of Elections. She is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations.

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Caitlyn Fletcher

Firm: O'Connor Family Law

45 Lyman Street, Suite 18 , Westborough , Massachusetts 01581 Zip code: 01581

Practice Areas: Family

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Cathleen Collins

Firm: Collins Family Law Group, P.C.

49 Myrtle Street , Melrose , Massachusetts 02176 Zip code: 02176

Practice Areas: Family

Cathleen has extensive experience in civil litigation. Cathleen has argued thousands of motions in court, and has tried many cases to successful verdicts. She also has argued before the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Since 2009, Cathleen has been primarily focusing her practice in the area of domestic relations, and has assisted hundreds of clients in divorce, custody, child support, adoptions and visitation matters. She also serves as a Guardian ad Litem doing custody evaluations to help families resolve difficult family law matters.. She has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine for her work in family law as well as one of the Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts in every year since 2013. Cathleen is an active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, The Greater Boston Family Law American Inn of Court, The Massachusetts Probate and Family American Inn of Court, the AFCC, Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem and the Justinian Law Society.

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Catharine Blake

Firm: ATWOOD & CHERNY

177 Huntington Ave., 23rd Floor , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 Zip code: 02115

Practice Areas: Family

I represent clients in a wide variety of matrimonial matters in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. This includes divorce (including asset division, support, custody, removal, and valuation issues), paternity, contempt, modification, and appellate work. I have signficiant experience drafting prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements, as well as litigation of such agreements at the time of a divorce. I am trained in mediation and represent clients in both mediation and collaborative law.

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Caroline Vincent

Firm: Wilchins, Cosentino & Novins LLP

20 Williams Street , Wellesley , Massachusetts 01742 Zip code: 01742

Practice Areas: Family

Caroline Vincent is a cum laude graduate of Boston University (2008) and a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School (2013) where she was the recipient of the Sargent Scholarship. While at Suffolk, Caroline served as an editor of the Transnational Law Review and co-authored an article titled Liberation or Exploitation: Commercial Surrogacy and the Indian Surrogacy, 36 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT’L L. REV. 671 (2013). As part of her work on the Law Review, Caroline organized a school wide moot court competition that focused on complex issues of international law.. During law school, Caroline interned at the Suffolk Probate and Family Court and served as a student attorney in Middlesex and Suffolk counties for low-income individuals in their divorce and custody proceedings. Caroline further honed her legal research and legal writing skills as a law clerk at a small firm in Medford, focusing on family law, probate, and general litigation.. After graduating from law school, Caroline served as a Judicial Law Clerk with the Probate and Family Court from 2013-2015. While serving as a law clerk, Caroline worked closely with the justices in researching and drafting decisions related to child custody, support and asset division.. After finishing her clerkship, Caroline joined the firm of Wilchins, Cosentino and Friend, LLP. In 2016, Caroline joined the Law Offices of Sheara F. Friend.. Caroline is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Caroline’s practice focuses on all matters of domestic relations with a focus on child custody and complex asset division.

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Carol Phinney

Firm: Phinney Law and Mediation

480 Route 6A , East Sandwich , Massachusetts 02537 Zip code: 02537

Practice Areas: Family

Carol A. Phinney has practiced family law in Massachusetts since 1989 and devotes her practice to matters of uncontested and contested divorce, child custody and relocation, support, alimony, paternity, abuse prevention orders and guardianships.. Carol has represented clients in high-conflict cases in courtrooms across Eastern MA. For over 25 years, Carol practiced in Middlesex, Essex, Worcester and Suffolk Counties before relocating to scenic Cape Cod in 2016. From 2002 to 2007, Carol represented the Mother in the case of Mason v. Coleman which set the current standard of review in removal cases when the parents share physical custody. Following the SJC decision in 2006 denying Mother's relocation, Carol continued to advocate for Mother who ultimately was permitted to move the children out of State. Family law cases require a unique commitment to the client due to the highly emotional issues, the length of time required and the evolving nature of family and parenting law.

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Carmella Pitaro

Firm: Carmella M. Pitaro, Attorney at Law

P.O. Box 6246 , Plymouth , Massachusetts 02362 Zip code: 02362

Practice Areas: Family

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Carlos Maycotte

Firm: Fitch Law Partners LLP

84 State Street, 11th Floor , Boston , Massachusetts 02109 Zip code: 02109

Practice Areas: Family

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.

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