A Medford, Massachusetts, Family Law Firm
Lawyers Who Understand and Care

The family law attorneys at the Law Office of Kevin P. O’Malley are prepared to provide quality legal service for almost any legal need your family will encounter. Whether you’re establishing a new household or bringing a child into the world, there are legal tools that can smooth your path and help you avoid problems in the future.

Establishing a Household
Many couples choose to live together before marriage, or instead of marriage. A Cohabitation Agreement defines financial arrangements and division of property concerns that can make your relationship run more smoothly day to day and provide clear direction for the division of property should the relationship end.  Call a Boston cohabitation attorney and ask how a legal agreement can help you.

Couples with significant assets often choose to create a Prenuptial Agreement to ensure that later property division can be accomplished with greater ease and to provide greater peace of mind for children from a previous relationship.

Antenuptial Agreementsmay be a wise idea if one spouse is embarking upon a risky business venture and the other spouses wishes to protect his or her financial interests from creditors of the business. Ask our family law attorneys about it if you are in this situation.

Same-Sex Relationships
Gay and lesbian couples face the same issues in family life as heterosexual couples as well as issues particular to their choice. For seven years, the Law Office of Kevin P. O’Malley has been helping same-sex couples buy real estate, develop cohabitation agreements and prenuptial agreements, adopt children or step-children, and negotiate the break-up of a relationship, with its attendant issues of division of assets , visitation plans, and  child custody and child support . Our lawyers are pleased to serve the legal needs of the Massachusetts GLBT community. As long-term Chair of the Somerville Human Rights Commission, attorney O’Malley understands and can appreciate the unique issues involved in these matter.

Caring for Children
Whether you are seeking to build your family through independent adoption, step-parent adoption, grandparent adoption, or by providing guardianship for a minor child, the family law attorneys at the Law Office of Kevin P. O’Malley are prepared to help you accomplish your adoption process in Family Court.

Every child has two parents, and he or she deserves support from both of those parents. The Medford child support lawyers at the Law Office of Kevin P. O’Malley help parents establish paternity, secure child support, and establish custody and parenting time agreements.

Caring for Vulnerable Family Members
Guardianship and Conservatorship are responsible, often life-saving legal tools to ensure that elderly parents, young children or vulnerable family members suffering from Alzheimer’s, dementia or an incapacitating illness receive the care they need and have their financial interests managed.

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