Steven Eric Gurdin

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Steven Eric Gurdin: Attorney with Fitch Law Partners LLP
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  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer AV Preeminent Rating
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Biography

I have been practicing civil litigation for over 20 years with a concentration in the areas of Family Law and Probate Litigation.   I represent clients in all aspects of family law including, divorce proceedings, paternity actions, removal actions, modification and contempt actions, child custody disputes, domestic violence, and alimony and child support issues. I regularly prepare and negotiate pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. I have extensive experience in representing clients in complex financial issues relating to divorce such as business and real estate valuation, structuring alimony and child support payments to maximize income tax deductibility, and properly analyzing the tax implications when dividing sizeable marital assets. I am on the New England Advisory Board of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators ("AACFL")  and have earned the designation of ("CFL" - Ceritified Financial Litigator) from the AACFL.   I have significant experience representing clients in child custody disputes and work closely with Court appointed Guardians Ad Litem and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. I have experience litigating matters involving issues relating to de facto parents and same sex relationships. I am skilled in the complexities of probate litigation. I represent clients in will contests, actions regarding the interpretation and reformation of trusts, guardianship and conservatorship actions. I actively represent clients who are fiduciaries and beneficiaries regarding the proper administration of trusts and estates. I have successfully represented numerous attorneys and professional fiduciaries in contested proceedings in the Probate and Family Court and Superior Court. I have been recognized and acknoweldged by various peer review publications.  I repeatedly have been named a "Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyer" and a "Top 100 New England Super Lawyer" in Massachusetts Super Lawyers published by the Thomson Reuters rating service in Boston Magazine. I am ranked at the highest level of legal ability, "AV," in the benchmark Martindale-Hubble Law Directory. I also am listed in the 2013-2017editions of Best Lawyers in America® a highly esteemed, national peer review guide of attorneys.    

(Also at Providence, Rhode Island Office)
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Areas of Practice (6)

  • Divorce and Family Law
  • Local Counsel To Out-Of-State Law Firms
  • Probate Litigation
  • Probate
  • Child Custody
  • Domestic Violence

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Bachelor of Arts, 1990; Albany Law School Union University, Albany, New York, Juris Doctor, 1994
Law School Attended:
Albany Law School of Union University, JD - Juris Doctor, 1994
Year of First Admission:
1994
Admission:
1994, Massachusetts; 1995, New York
Memberships:

Professional Activities and Associations

•Member and past Co-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Boston Bar Association
•Member and past Co-Chair of the Fiduciary Litigation Committee of the Trust and Estates Section of the Boston Bar Association
•Member of the Boston Estate Planning Council
•Member of the New England Advisory Board of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators - AACFL
•Member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Brookline Community Foundation
•Mr. Gurdin is admitted to the Massachusetts and New York state bars

Birth Information:
1968
Reported Cases:
Cases of Note: As An Advocate: After a multi-day trial, secured a favorable alimony award that allowed client to maintain her home and lifestyle enjoyed during a long term marriage.; After a lengthy trial, succeeded in obtaining the Court's permission for client to remove his three children from Massachusetts to New York.; Obtained a sizable child support arrearage and payment plan for client after trial.; Successfully represented client in a real estate partition trial, resulting in client receiving the subject property at a favorable value.; Succeeded in mediation in protecting client's sizable inheritance from being divided in the marital estate property division.; Succeeded in obtaining an agreed value for client's business that then resulted in a favorable resolution of the divorce after a multi-day mediation.; After a multi-day mediation succeeded in equitably dividing opposing parties' stock options and restricted stock units.; Succeeded in resolving a divorce matter in a private and discrete fashion for a client who was CEO of a widely known and respected Massachusetts employer.; Successfully resolved a divorce matter for an elected public official without impacting client's political aspirations.; Obtained summary judgment in a will contest causing the decedent's will to be probated and assets distributed in accordance with his intentions.; Successfully removed a trustee for self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duty.; Succeeded in obtaining primary physical custody of client's children and transferring the children to a superior public school system.; After extensive discovery and a forensic accounting analysis, succeeded in obtaining a favorable property division and alimony buy out for client.; Prevailed in child removal action permitting child to be removed to Florida, thereby allowing client to live with her Husband in Florida.
ISLN:
909779526

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