Divorce with respect for oneself and the other members of the family undergoing division.

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I specialize in Divorce Mediation, Collaborative Divorce Law, and Family Law. Please call when you need to consider hiring an Attorney who will represent your best interest. I have been serving the Western MA area since 1984. Family law matters: divorce, support, rights to visit child/ren and parenting of children whose parents are separated or divorcing are almost always emotionally stressful. But that doesn't mean that life that has been difficult enough for a couple to end their relationship has to result in lifelong resentment or destruction of the child's relationship with one or both of their parents.

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Mon - Fri	9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat - Sun	Closed

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Phones:

Main - 413-623-2325

MobilePhone - 413-374-1772

Fax - 413-623-2326

Address:

96 King Richard Dr Becket, MA 01223

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I am an experienced Divorce Lawyer, practicing in Springfield, MA courts since 1984, and in Northampton and Pittsfield Probate and Family Courts, too. I respect the difficult reality that children have very different relationships with their parents than husband and wife have with each other. Good mothers and good fathers don't equal each other, and children generally need healthy access to both parents. Children - regardless of their ages - don't need to be engaged with ongoing adult issues of their divorcing and divorced parents. They need to be free from trying to take responsibility for the needs of either or both of their parents during the process of ending a marriage. I prefer to believe that divorcing parents can choose to protect their children from the conflicts in the divorce, to let their childd/ren grow up to be healthy adults, not to be a parent's support system. So, I believe that mediation and collaborative divorce practices are less painful for divorcing adults and offer a family a better opportunity to get through and past a divorce with as little damage to children as possible than a contested divorce trial. Adults don't set out to end a marriage unless they feel strongly that their lives must take a different path than the marriage they've shared. One important reality that affects children is that blame for the end of the marriage almost never helps the children adjust to being parented after the divorce. Instead of spending funds on a divorce trial, an option that Collaborative Divorce sometimes offers is to hire a coach to give neutral advice about how life can go ahead and money can be managed. I have been divorced, experienced sharing custody of my child, and married again, facing the issues of step parenting and the ongoing parenting concerns that show up after a child of divorce has grown to adulthood.

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I'm on the Limited Representation List of lawyers, and in appropriate cases I will work with some clients on a limited basis. You always deal directly with your lawyer, not an assistant.