Boston, Massachusetts
One Boston Place, 201 Washington Street, Suite 3300, Boston, MA 02108
Prior to joining JAMS, Fern Frolin, Esq., was a member of Mirick O’Connell’s family law group. Ms. Frolin has extensive practice area experience in family law and focused her practice on complex matrimonial law matters, including divorce, custody, child support, modification, asset division, business valuation and grandparent visitation. She has also dealt with enforcement and modification of custody and support decrees entered both nationally and internationally.
Ms. Frolin brings unique problem-solving skills to highly contentious, high-dollar-amount cases. She is a skilled attorney and a very skilled fact finder renowned for her discovery master and guardian ad litem work. She believes that couples should maintain as much control over their divisions as possible, and mediation allows them to do just that. Known for her knowledge of family law legislation, a great temperament and consensus building, she also garnered a well-earned reputation for an impressive understanding of the overall math and accounting involved in divorce proceedings. This includes the valuation and division of stock options, life insurance policies and executive compensation packages.
Ms. Frolin was the only Massachusetts lawyer to serve on both the Child Support Guidelines Task Force, which drafted the first major revision of Massachusetts' Child Support Guidelines in more than 30 years, and the Massachusetts legislature’s Alimony Reform Task Force, which wrote the Massachusetts Alimony Reform Act. She also served on the Probate and Family Court Model Parenting Plan Committee, which drafted model parenting plans that appeared on the Probate and Family Court Department’s website for more than a decade. She was appointed to the court's Voice of the Child Committee and worked on standards for representation of children in high-conflict custody matters. Most recently, Ms. Frolin was appointed to serve the trial court as a member of the Child Support Guidelines Quadrennial Review Task Force.
Ms. Frolin has held leadership positions at the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation and the Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem. She is a Louis D. Brandeis Life Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and still holds a leadership position in the American Academy of Matrimony Lawyers.
Fern was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© in the field of Family Law, and she was first listed in 2006. She has been named a New England "Super Lawyer" and a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer” by Boston magazine and Law & Politics every year since 2007. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and she is past president and a national governor of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Lawyer Monthly, U.K. named her as its 2017 United States Lawyer of the Year for Child Custody and Child Support.
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