Patricia S. Fernandez
Concentrating in domestic relations practice since 1986, Pat handles divorces, modifications, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and paternity issues. She provides mediation, arbitration and conciliation services. She is certified as an arbitrator through the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is a Certified Financial Litigator through the American Academy of Certified Financial Litigators. She also has served as Receiver, Trustee, Conciliator, Discovery Master and Guardian Ad Litem through appointments by the Probate and Family Court. Pat employs her extensive experience to craft intelligent solutions to clients’ problems and to guide clients towards realistic goals. While aiming to resolve matters in the manner most cost-efficient and beneficial to her clients, Pat has ample trial experience from which to draw, should it become necessary. Pat has conducted numerous trials (one as long as 15 days) in the Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts, many of which have involved complex business or commercial real estate valuations. Pat has consistently appeared in “Best Lawyers in America” since 2006 and has been named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” every year since 2005.
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- Massachusetts
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- New Hampshire
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- English
- Yale Law School
- J.D. (1986) | Family Law
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- Wellesley College
- B.A. (1986) | Psychology
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- Honors: Durant Scholar (equivalent to Magna Cum Laude)
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- Nomination
- Best Lawyers in America
- Nominated each year since 2006
- Nomination
- Super Lawyers
- Included each year since 2005
- American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators
- Member
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- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- Board of Managers, Secretary
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- American Inn of Court, Massachusetts Family and Probate
- Vice President, Secretary, Board of Directors
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- Essex County Bar Association
- Conciliator
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- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Member
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- Activities: Family Law Section Council, Law Practice Management Council
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- State Bar of Massachusetts # 548054
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- Lawrence bar Association
- Executive Committee
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- The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
- Volume 1, Number 2, Section Review of the Massachusetts Bar Association
- The Status of Grandparents’ Visitation Rights in Massachusetts
- Boston Bar Journal
- Representing Children in Grandparent-Parent Disputes
- Grandparent Visitation Disputes: A Legal Resource Manual, published by the American Bar Association
- Grandparent Access: A Model Statute
- 6 Yale Law and Policy Review 109
