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GRETEL MARIE DUFRESNE was previously with Atwood & Cherny from 2003 through 2008.  In 2008, she relocated with her husband to Southern California. Gretel was admitted to the California State Bar in 2009 and was an associate with the law firm Phillips, Whisnant, Gazin, Gorczyca & Curtin, LLP in Newport Beach, California where she concentrated in the practice of family law and was an active member of the Orange County Bar Association, Family Law Section.  After three and a half years on the West Coast, Gretel and her family returned to Massachusetts and she rejoined Atwood & Cherny, P.C., where she concentrates in family law.   Gretel has extensive experience with all aspects of domestic relations law, including the settling and litigating of divorce, modification, paternity, and contempt cases, and appellate family law work.  

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of California

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Member of Family Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member of Boston Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association Family Law Section Steering Committee 
• Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association, Family Law Steering Committee, CLE Sub-Committee (2015)
• Essex County Bar Association
• Orange County Bar Association, Family Law Section (CA)
• North Shore Women in Business (NSWIB), Treasurer (2015/2016)

PUBLICATIONS & COURSES

• Co-chaired and moderated BBA CLE programs: “Recent Trends in Alimony and Child Support” (2014 and 2015)
• Co-authored chapter Motion Practice for Temporary Orders for the 2016 edition of the MCLE Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual 

NOTABLE CASES

• Rodman v. Rodman, 470 Mass. 539 (2015), addressing the application of Alimony Reform Act to pre-existing judgments

EDUCATION

• Suffolk University Law School - J. D. 2004, (2002 Suffolk University School of Law, Juvenile Justice Center Summer Fellowship; Family Advocacy Clinic 2003-2004)
• College of the Holy Cross - B.A. 2001

GRETEL MARIE DUFRESNE
gdufresne@atwoodcherny.com
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