Practice:

• Divorce & Family
• Private Client

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Experience:

Francine Gardikas has extensive litigation experience in the areas of high net worth divorce cases, including those involving complex business valuation and asset issues; high conflict custody / parenting disputes; negotiating and drafting divorce agreements, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; child support and alimony actions; paternity actions; modification matters; removal cases; same-sex marriage and divorce issues; post-divorce modification and enforcement of alimony.

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson in May 2004, Ms. Gardikas was with White, Inker Aronson, P.C. She also previously served as a law clerk at the Massachusetts Trial Court – Probate and Family Court Department from 1999-2001.

Memberships:

• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association, Family Law Steering Committee (2006-2013)

Education:

• J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 1999
• B.A., Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, 1996

Awards:

• Ms. Gardikas was selected for inclusion in Massachusetts Rising Stars ® (2012, 2011 and 2008). Super Lawyers and Rising Stars employ an annual jurisdictional selection process. Only five percent of lawyers in the state were selected to the Super Lawyers list and 2.5 percent to the Rising Stars list. The listing appears annually in the November issue of Boston magazine and in New England Super Lawyers.

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