Legal Services - Metro Boston Area
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Citron Law
Jo Ann Citron, Ph.D., J.D.
75 Arlington Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 326-1300
Fax: (617) 209-1331
Email: jac@citronlaw.net
Website: www.citronlaw.net
Citron Law handles custody and property disputes in the context of divorce, dissolution of non-marital relationships, post-divorce modifications, paternity, grandparent, and de facto parent claims. The firm's philosophy is to negotiate whenever possible and to litigate whenever necessary. Jo Ann Citron has chaired the family law section of one of the state bar associations, and is a former member of a council advising a national family law advocacy organization that litigates high-impact cases across the country. Her practice is located in Massachusetts where she represents clients in Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Barnstable counties. She is also licensed in New York where her practice focuses on impact litigation whose purpose is to expand legal protections for alternative families. Citron Law works with mental health professionals in child custody cases, and with financial planners and accountants in property disputes involving significant marital estates.
Cynthia Creem
Stone, Stone & Creem
One Washington Mall, Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 523-4567
Fax: (617) 523-5061
Email: ccreem@sscattorneys.com
Website: www.sscattorneys.com
Cynthia Stone Creem has established herself as one of Boston's best attorneys, specializing in the area of domestic relations law
for almost 40 years. Ms. Creem was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1967 at which time she joined her
family's law firm where she began focusing on family and probate matters. She works
primarily in the areas of divorce, custody agreements, alimony, child support, paternity and estate
administration.
Marc E. Fitzgerald, Esq.
Casner & Edwards, LLP
303 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
Phone: (617) 426-5900
Fax: (617) 426-8799
Email: fitzgerald@casneredwards.com
My practice encompasses all aspects of domestic relations, including divorce, custody, modification, child support, paternity,
guardianship, and all areas of mediation and alternative resolution. I handle matters in a variety of litigation
involving complex business valuation, asset division, inheritances, custody disputes, domestic violence and non-traditional family structure.
I am a Partner at the firm of Casner & Edwards, LLP. I am also a member of the family law section council at the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Melanie J. Gargas, Esq.
Gargas & Associates, P.C.
75 Federal St., Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617) 542-4200
Fax: (617) 542-4242
Email: mgargas@gargaslaw.com
Family law practice which includes divorce, financial, custody and visitation disputes,
modifications and contempts.
Laurie Israel, Esq.
Israel, Van Kooy & Days, LLC
1318 Beacon Street, Suite 19, Brookline, MA 02446
Phone: (617) 277-3774
Fax: (617) 277-6520
Email: lisrael@socialaw.com
Websites: www.ivkdlaw.com
www.MediationToStayMarried.com
Laurie Israel is a lawyer who helps clients resolve their disputes with a high level of dignity, integrity and creativity. Laurie works in the areas of collaborative divorce, divorce mediation, divorce negotiation, and prenuptial agreements. She also helps people who wish to stay married through providing marital mediation (“mediation to stay married”) and negotiation of postnuptial agreements. You can find out more about her work and read her articles on her websites.
Joyce Kauffman, Esq.
Law Office of Joyce Kauffman
231 Third St., Suite 720, Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 577-1505
Fax: (617) 577-1012
Email: joyce@kauffmanlaw.net
Website: www.kauffmanlaw.net
Joyce Kauffman is a 1992 graduate of Northeastern University Law School and specializes in family law, co-parent adoption, and mediation, with an emphasis on legal issues affecting lesbian and gay families. Attorney Kauffman has written numerous articles on these issues and is a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences, and in community settings on issues of importance to lesbian and gay parents, co-parent adoption, and family law, and more recently, on how same-sex marriage impacts the lesbian and gay community.
Attorney Kauffman is a past Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association (MLGBA) and past chair of the MLGBA’s Family Law Section. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Family Pride Coalition, a national organization advocating for lesbian and gay families. She is the recipient of the 2003 Barney Frank Award from the Massachusetts School of Law, the 2005 Fisher Davenport Award from the Family Pride Coalition honoring her for her contributions to lesbian and gay families, and the recipient of the 2007 Gwen Bloomingdale Pioneer Spirit Award from the MLGBA.
Vicki Shemin, Esq., J.D., LICSW
Boston Law Collaborative
99 Summer Street, Suite 1600, Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617)439-4700
Fax: (617) 439-0700
Email: vshemin@bostonlawcollaborative.com
Website: www.bostonlaw collaborative.com
Vicki L. Shemin, J.D., LICSW is a dual-degree experienced family law practitioner and clinical social worker who is “of counsel” to Boston Law Collaborative, LLC.
She specializes in divorce mediation, collaborative law, divorce consultation and coaching, Parenting Coordination and Guardian
ad Litem work. Her expertise in family law cases includes: prenuptial agreements; pre-divorce matters; child support and child custody disputes; alimony
and the equitable division of the marital estate; post-divorce modifications; relocations; stepfamily issues; and same-sex partnerships.
For years, Attorney Shemin was an adjunct professor at Boston University’s School of Social Work (where she taught “Family Law”, “Ethics” & “Divorce Mediation”)
and she has also taught at Boston University’s School of Law (“Trusts and Estates”). In addition, she has authored several articles on topics of interest to family
law practitioners which have been published in national journals, and she has lectured on seminal areas of interest in the areas of domestic relations and probate law.
Attorney Shemin has long-served on the Board of MAGAL (Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem), and is a member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation,
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council and Boston Bar Association (Family Law Section).
She also formerly served on the Board of The Divorce Center. As someone who has herself weathered the divorce process, Attorney Shemin is acutely sensitive to the issues and needs of families who face this life-altering challenge.
Diane W. Spears, Esq.
One Faneuil Hall Marketplace, South Building, 4th Fl., Boston, MA 02109
Phone: (617) 227-9713
Fax: (617) 723-5601
Email: spearsd@verizon.net
Website: www.dianewspears.com
Diane has over twenty years experience in handling divorces, custody disputes, guardianship cases, elder law issues, real estate matters, and wills and trusts. She also has substantial experience in mediating cases privately and is often appointed as a conciliator by Probate and family Court judges.
She is a past president of the Divorce Center, founding member of the Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem and currently serves on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation.
Diane is conveniently located in downtown Boston and easily accessible by car or public transportation.
Gayle Stone-Turesky, Esq.
Stone, Stone & Creem
One Washington Mall, Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 523-4567
Fax: (617) 523-5061
Email: gstone-turesky@sscattorneys.com
Website: www.sscattorneys.com
Gayle Stone-Turesky has been an attorney in the field of family and probate law for over 25 years. Following her admission
to the Massachusetts Bar and the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts in 1980, Ms. Stone-Turesky joined her
mother, father and sister at their family practice, Stone, Stone and Creem. Since that time, she
has established herself as one of Boston's most well-known family law attorneys. Ms. Stone-Turesky has focused
her practice in the areas of divorce, modification, custody, paternity, pre-marital agreements,
guardianships, and administrations of estates. She currently serves as Public Administrator
for the County of Middlesex.
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