Family Attorney, Massachusetts

Personalized Family Law Services to Tailor Each Unique Case

As a compassionate and dedicated family law firm, we can commit 100% of our attention, effort, and time to each of our clients. Other, larger law firms often have clients interact heavily with paralegals or inexperienced lawyers. When you work with Angel Burke Law, you get individualized, special attention from an experienced legal professional working on your behalf.

You can count on family law Attorney Angel Burke to provide you with comprehensive legal counsel with the following issues:

• Divorce & Legal Separation— Attorney Burke can advise you on the critical aspects and differences between divorce and receiving separate support and how they might apply in your situation.—if you want to dissolve your marriage legally, Brian M. Angel Burke can represent you throughout the legal process.

• Alimony & Child Support—in divorce cases, the parties must resolve issues concerning the temporary or continued financial support of a spouse who will be left with certain economic needs upon divorce. The same applies to the child or children.
• Arbitration—as an alternative dispute resolution method to litigation, arbitration can be a more effective way to settle things between you and your former spouse. Your attorney can advise you on your options regarding the appropriateness of arbitration and represent you during arbitration proceedings.
• Annulments—in cases where a marriage is void or voidable due to some legal defect involving the formation or nature of the relationship, the parties may request an annulment—a procedure that treats the marriage as if it never existed.
• Child Custody & Modifications—when a child’s parents get divorced or are unmarried and separated, questions about their parental rights and responsibilities regarding the care and custody of the child become a major point of contention between the parties. Modifications to issues such as custody are often used when altering the terms of a divorce.
• Domestic Violence & Restraining Orders—when the threat of abuse and domestic violence affects a family, they can take advantage of certain legal protections to prevent such acts from harming them in the future and throughout family law proceedings.
• Grandparents’ Rights & Guardianship—although a child’s parents usually have paramount rights concerning a child’s care, custody, and visitation, non-parents such as the child’s grandparents may have superior rights under certain circumstances. In certain situations, the rights and responsibilities concerning the care and custody of a minor child do not arise from a parent-child relationship. You can benefit from an understanding of the appropriateness of guardianship in your case.