Mr. Soilson represents clients in a broad range of family law and Probate, Will And Trust Litigation matters. His areas of focus include divorce, custody, child support, alimony, relocation, paternity, contempt, modification, abuse prevention, and the negotiating and drafting of premarital and postnuptial agreements. He also serves as a Mediator, Arbitrator, Discovery Master, Parenting Coordinator and Guardian ad Litem in divorce and family law cases. In the Probate, Will And Trust Litigation arena, Mr. Soilson represents clients in will contests, trust and estate disputes, and contested guardianship and conservatorship proceedings.
Education And Distinctions
Mr. Soilson is the President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). He is a certified Family Law Arbitrator, Conciliator and Mediator, and serves as a court-appointed Discovery Master, Category V Parenting Coordinator and Category F Guardian ad Litem. He is a Certified Financial Litigator and member of the American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators, Greater Boston Family Law Inn of Court, and Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). He has served as a Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the AFCC, an interdisciplinary and international association dedicated to the resolution of family conflict, and Overcoming Barriers, a non-profit organization created to promote children’s healthy relationships with their parents where a child is at risk of losing a relationship with a parent. Mr. Soilson is also a member of the Family Law and Probate Law Sections of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and of the Family Law Section and Fiduciary Litigation Subcommittee of the Trust & Estates Section of the Boston Bar Association.
A past member of the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth, the Board of Trustees of the Bay Farm Montessori Academy, and the Finance and Advisory Committee for the Town of Plymouth, Mr. Soilson has been a frequent contributor of pro bono services to the community through the Lawyer of the Day program in the Plymouth County Probate and Family Court, and the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Family Law Project for Battered Women. Mr. Soilson also served as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of the Boston Bar Association’s Family Law Section Steering Committee.
During law school, Mr. Soilson clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court and advised the Israeli Justices on family law issues adjudicated in the United States. Mr. Soilson served in the United States Navy and through a selective Naval Intelligence program received a Russian Certificate from the Defense Language Institute in 1989. Mr. Soilson is conversational in Russian and Hebrew.
Secured paternity and sole physical and legal custody judgments for client after trial of a consolidated paternity and care and protection proceeding in the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court and Juvenile Court. Judgments affirmed by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Adoption of Raissa, 93 Mass. App. Ct. 447, review denied, 480 Mass. 1106 (2018).