Practice Areas: Family Law, Estate & Trust Litigation; view more
Licensed in Massachusetts since: 1994
Education: Albany Law School
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Mr. Gurdin's Secondary Location:
110 Cedar Street Suite 250
Wellesley Hills, MA 02481
Mr. Gurdin's civil litigation practice is concentrated in the areas of Family Law and Probate Litigation. Mr. Gurdin is repeatedly 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. He is ranked at the highest level of legal ability, "AV," in the benchmark Martindale-Hubble Law Directory. Mr. Gurdin is also listed in the 2013-2017 editions of Best Lawyers in America® a highly esteemed, national peer review guide of attorneys.
Mr. Gurdin represents 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. Mr. Gurdin regularly prepares and negotiates pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. Mr. Gurdin has 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. Mr. Gurdin has significant experience representing clients in child custody disputes and working closely with Court appointed Guardians Ad Litem and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. Mr. Gurdin has experience litigating matters involving issues relating to de facto parents and same sex relationships.
Mr. Gurdin is skilled in the complexities of probate litigation. Mr. Gurdin represents clients in will contests, actions regarding the interpretation and reformation of trusts, guardianship and conservatorship actions. Mr. Gurdin actively represents clients who are fiduciaries and beneficiaries regarding the proper administration of trusts and estates. Mr. Gurdin has successfully represented numerous attorneys and professional fiduciaries in contested proceedings in the Probate and Family Court and Superior Court.
Practice areas
Family Law, Estate & Trust LitigationFocus areas
Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Father's Rights, Juvenile Law, Marital Property, Mediation & Collaborative Law, Name Change, Paternity, Prenuptial Agreements, Same Sex Family Law, Will Contests
- 70% Family Law
- 30% Estate & Trust Litigation
First Admitted: 1994, Massachusetts
Professional Webpage: https://www.fitchlp.com/attorney/steven-e-gurdin/
- New York
- Member, New England Advisory Board of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators.
- Active member of the Boston Bar Association
- Served a two year term as Co-Chair of the Fiduciary Litigation Committee of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Boston Bar Association
- Massachusetts
- Co-Chair, Boston Bar Association, Fiduciary litigation Committee
- Member, MCLE's Family Law Curriculum Advisory Committee
- Served a two year term as Co-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Boston Bar Association
- Active member of the Boston Estate Planning Council
- Co-Chair Family Law Section - Boston Bar Association
- Chair, MCLE's Divorce Law Basics (2004-2016)
- Active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association
- Active member of the Family and Probate Law Sections of the Massachusetts Bar Association
- Ranked at the highest level of legal ability, "AV," in the benchmark Martindale-Hubble Law Directory
- Among ten recognized by MCLE as a "top volunteering individual" out of the 2,431 individuals that volunteer their time, expertise and enthusiasm as MCLE advisors, faculty, authors and editors
- Listed in the 2013-2017 editions of Best Lawyers in America® a highly esteemed, national peer review guide of attorneys
- Recognized as a "top volunteering individual" by MCLE in its Annual Report.
- Emory University, B.A., 1990
- MCLE - Family Court Judicial Forum (2003-2016), Moderator
- MCLE's Family Law Case update , Panelist
- Moderator, Boston Bar Association Bench/Bar Program with four Justices of the Suffolk County Probate and Family Court, ,
- Boston Bar Association Bench/Bar Program with five Probate and Family Court Justices (2009), Moderator
- MCLE's Family Law Trial Advocacy Workshop (2005-2016), Panelist
- MCLE's Probate Litigation Basics , Panelist
- Boston Bar Association Trust and Estates Section "Recent Developments in Fiduciary Litigation", Presenter
- Co-Author, An Overview of Alimony 98 MCLE 10:21
- Participated in authoring section on Discovery in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education's Divorce Law Practice Manual
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2008 - 2024
- Rising Stars: 2005 - 2007
Top Lists
Top 100: Massachusetts Super Lawyers: 2012 - 2014, 2016 - 2024- Top 100: 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2021 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2019 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2017 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2013 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2012 Massachusetts Super Lawyers