About
Sheara Friend’s circle of relatives regulation exercise is built upon her recognition as a fierce suggest for people and households. A pro courtroom champion, Sheara has devoted over thirty years to the exercise of circle of relatives regulation, along with all factors of divorce and separation, complaints for contempt and modification, and appeals. She is well-versed in excessive net-really worth divorces, mediation, and collaborative law. Sheara has experience in all aspects of own family regulation, together with parenting plans, contested custody matters, out-of-state removal, estrangement, alienation, children’s rights, parental rights, infant guide, paternity, alimony/spousal support, home violence, restraining orders, neglect and abuse. Her exercise additionally consists of preparing or reviewing prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Sheara is a famous trial legal professional who has effectively represented customers in numerous complicated multi-day trials for divorce, custody and relocation inside the Massachusetts Probate and Family Courts and has correctly argued appeals of Probate & Family Court judgments. Sheara also practices mediation and Collaborative Law and belongs to the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council.
Sheara frequently affords at conferences on a wide range of subjects, together with custody and parenting plans, parental alienation, legal custody requirements and their interaction with infant development, cultural issues in divorce and the courts, and domestic violence and abuse prevention. She additionally seemed at the tv program Chronicle to talk about restraining orders in Massachusetts.
Domestic Relations Law
Divorce
High Asset Divorce
Child and Spousal Support
Child Custody and Removal
Alienation topics
Modifications, Contempts and Appeals
Mediation and Collaborative Law
Protective Orders and domestic violence matters
Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
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Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
- Russian: Spoken
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Owner
Law Offices of Sheara F. Friend
2016 - Managing Partner
Wilchins Cosentino & Friend
2013 - Partner, Domestic Relations Department Head
Seegel Lipshutz & Wilchins
2009 - Owner
Friend & Reinhardt
2000 - Managing Partner
Kahalas Warshaw & Friend
1993 - Associate
Kahalas & Warshaw
1993
