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Levitt Family Law & Mediation is a family law firm dedicated to helping clients achieve a win-win resolution to family legal matters including divorce, child custody, parenting plans, guardianship, and conservatorship.
Being Seen AND Heard: A Key to Positive Divorce Negotiations
Last year, I received a holiday card from a mediation client, letting me know that she felt both seen AND heard in the mediation process. This felt very powerful, and gave me pause for thought about what happens in the mediation...
What’s in a Name (and How to Change it)?
In Romeo and Juliet, playwright William Shakespeare asked the question, “What's in a name?” Does a name itself have meaning, or it is just an arbitrary label given to us at birth? Does our name define us or our characteristics? We are not given a choice as to our...
Divorce Narratives: The Power of Stories
As a family law attorney, mediator and guardian ad litem for over 30 years, I have listened to many stories. The stories come from different sources - from a parent I may be representing, from both parents when I mediate or from children directly when I am guardian ad...
Life Happens: Divorce Modifications
Divorce agreements sometimes need to be modified because something changes in either or both parties’ lives. Massachusetts has the concepts of “merger” and “survival” of the terms of a divorce agreement, which affect what can be modified in the future and what cannot....
Show me the Money! Using a Financial Neutral in Mediation III
By Karen J. Levitt and Susan Miller Part III of III - By Karen J. Levitt Next Steps: How Do You Actually Work With a Financial Neutral in Divorce Mediation? In the first two parts of this series, we have talked about why you might want to work with a financial neutral...