"Family court matters are extraordinarily trying. My goal is to get you and yours successfully to the other side so you can re-start your life."
Angelina H. Landi is an attorney in the Private Client Group, concentrating her practice on all aspects of family law including high conflict divorce and separation actions, complex property distribution, alimony and child support, difficult child custody matters, interstate and relocation issues, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, DCYF actions, grandparent and sibling visitation, adoptions and guardianships, and domestic abuse.
As a certified Guardian ad litem, Angelina also represents the interests of children involved in divorce or other custody actions and prepares reports and recommendations for the court.
In family court, every case is individual and personal. Angelina’s philosophy for successful representation is to have a clear understanding of a client’s specific goals and concerns from the first day they walk in the door so that she can be their partner, advisor and voice through every step of the process.
ExperienceExperience
• Helped a client successfully protect his premarital investment assets in a highly contested divorce proceeding.
• Assisted a client in obtaining guardianship of his nephew from Venezuela to assist him with moving beyond difficult living conditions and obtaining a college education in America.
• Assisted a client in successfully transferring a contested custody matter from Tennessee to Rhode Island and putting in place restrictions on traveling to visit their father out of state during COVID.
• Assisted grandparents in obtaining custody of, and eventually adopting, their grandchild who had been placed in non-relative foster care by DCYF.
• Assisted a mother in obtaining a restraining order against the father of her child whose threats specifically included attempts to interfere with her employment.
• Assisted a mother in regaining placement of her child who had been removed by DCYF.
• Assisted a husband in receiving a larger portion of the marital estate where the wife had engaged in infidelity.
• Assisted a stepfather in adopting his stepdaughter.
• Assisted a mother in obtaining sole custody and supervised visitation for her child where the father failed to co-parent and engage safely with the child.
• Assisted a mother in securing more than $30,000 in arrears, plus counsel fees, for child support and other expenses relative to the parties’ child.
• Successfully appealed a negative DCYF administrative decision to the chief judge of the Rhode Island Family Court that resulted not only in clearing my client’s record, but an award of a counsel fee.
Bar Admissions
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Education
J.D., Roger Williams School of Law
B.S., Broadcast Journalism, University of Southern California
Honors & Awards
Super Lawyers Rising Star 2021
Top 10 Family Law Attorneys Under Age 40, National Academy of Family Law Attorneys, 2015-2021
CALI Excellence for the Future Award – Criminal Defense Clinic, 2012
Memberships
Rhode Island Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
The Edward P. Gallogly Inn of Court
American Association for Justice – Chair, Family Law, 2017-2018; Chair, Elect Family Law, 2016-2017; Vice Chair, Family Law, 2015-2016
Rhode Island Association for Justice
Speaking Engagements
Divorce Motion & Trial Practice, NBI, June 2021
COVID Valuation Issues, Edward P. Gallogly Family Law Inn of Court, 2020
Negotiation College, Edward P. Gallogly Family Law Inn of Court, 2019
Finding Money On and Off Tax Returns for Child Support Calculations, Edward P. Gallogly Family Law Inn of Court, 2017
Trial Presentation Technology, Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, 2014
Trial Presentation Technology, Edward P. Gallogly Rhode Island Inn of Court Meeting, 2014
Articles & Publications
Trial Presentation Technology on a Small Scale – Rules of Practice; American Association for Justice Family Law Newsletter, 2014
