Jeffrey A. Soilson

1997, Florida
1999, Massachusetts
1999, New York
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. Tax Court

Professional Activities and Associations

•fellow and President-Elect of Massachusetts Chapter, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
•fellow, International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL)
•Certified Financial Litigator, American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators
•Member, The Greater Boston Family Law American Inn of Court
•Admitted to the Massachusetts, Florida and New York bars, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Soilson is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a Fellow in the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL), and Treasurer of the Massachusetts Chapter of the AAML. Mr. Soilson has been named a Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyer and a Top 100 New England Super Lawyer in the area of Family Law in annual lists published in Boston Magazine. Mr. Soilson is also listed in the Family Law and Mediation sections of Best Lawyers in America, a highly esteemed, national peer review guide of attorneys.

Jeffrey Soilson is a graduate of Columbia University, (B.A., 1994), and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, (J.D., 1997).

Mr. Soilson represents clients in a broad range of family law and probate litigation matters. His areas of focus include divorce, custody, child support, alimony, removal, paternity, contempt, modification, abuse prevention, adoption and the negotiating and drafting of premarital and postnuptial agreements. He also acts as a mediator of divorce cases. In the probate litigation arena, Mr. Soilson represents clients in will contests, trust and estate disputes, and contested guardianship and conservatorship proceedings. In recent engagements, Mr. Soilson:

•obtained a favorable custody and visitation judgment for a client in a paternity action;

•secured child support, alimony, and college expenses for a client from an overseas defendant by attaching inherited assets held in a Massachusetts trust;

•secured a significant six-figure settlement for a client whose family members had misappropriated funds from a family trust;

•obtained a divorce judgment awarding a client substantial ongoing support and a disparate division of marital assets as a result of gifted and inherited assets from the client's parents received during the marriage; and

•modified a divorce judgment to terminate a client's alimony obligations as a result of a material change in the parties' financial circumstances.

Mr. Soilson is an author and frequent speaker on family law topics. For instance, he is a Contributing Author of Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual (MCLE, Inc.; 2008) and a Co-author of Premarital Agreements, Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual (MCLE, Inc.; 2008). In 2013, he chaired a MCLE seminar on High Conflict Custody Cases and was a faculty member at a conference presented by the Massachusetts Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem titled, When the Court and Clinical Practice Collide: Working with High Conflict and Divorcing Families. In 2012, he was a faculty member at MCLE and Stafford seminars on Divorce Law, Prenuptial Agreements and Probate Litigation. In 2011, he presented a lecture at seminar titled, Social Media and First Amendment in Family Law Cases at the Boston Bar Association; and, in 2009, he spoke at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Seminar titled, Trying Divorce Cases.

Mr. Soilson is a Certified Divorce Mediator and trained in Conciliation and Parenting Coordination. He is a Certified Financial Litigator and member of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators, Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, Academy of Professional Family Mediators, Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem, and Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. He has served as a Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the AFCC, an interdisciplinary and international association dedicated to the resolution of family conflict, and Overcoming Barriers, a non-profit organization created to promote children's healthy relationships with their parents where a child is at risk of losing a relationship with a parent. Mr. Soilson is also a member of the Family Law and Probate Law Sections of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and of the Family Law Section and Fiduciary Liti