Kenneth M. Wright, Family Lawyer

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To make an appointment please call
617 228 - 4448
or write to kwright@smlthduggan.com

Ken Wright meets with clients at his firm.
Smith Duggan Buell & Rufo LLP

Lincoln North
55 Old Bedford Road
Lincoln. MA 01773
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3 Center Plaza
Boston MA 02109
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Divorce, Child Custody And Family Law

Whether you are the person requesting the divorce or the person who has been asked for a divorce, the process can be filled with pain, sadness, and frustration. A divorce is the end of partnership, but also the start on the road to a new life. Ken Wright has helped has helped hundreds of people navigate through these circumstances.

Ken Wright has decades of court experience representing clients in divorces, modification proceedings, and child custody disputes and all issues that are part of these proceedings including visitation arrangements, alimony, child support, and property division. Attorney Wright’s clients in these matters have included men and women professionals, executives, doctors, business owners, employees, and non-working spouses.

A new alimony law was passed by the Massachusetts legislature and signed by the Governor on September 26, 2011. Attorney Wright studied this legislation as it worked through the legislature and knows several of the people who helped write this legislation. Ken Wright is ready to advise his clients as to their rights under this new law.

Ken Wright meets with family law clients in the Smith Duggan office in Lincoln, Massachusetts (near Route 128) and Smith Duggan office in downtown Boston office (easily accessible to the T, and near Faneuil Hall). With the firm’s up to date technology including e-mail, scanning of documents, fax, and the telephone, only a few meetings after the first meeting need to be conducted in person.

Although Ken Wright is a trial attorney with extensive court experience in Massachusetts Probate & Family Courts, his style of practice is to attempt to achieve his client’s goals through civil communication and negotiation with opposing attorneys, rather than taking a more confrontational approach. He also advises clients who are attempting to resolve their divorce (or other family law matters) through mediation rather than negotiating through attorneys.

In addition to representing individuals, Attorney Wright has been appointed by Probate Court judges to act as a guardian ad litem to investigate and report to the Courts on child custody issues and other matters. If you hire Attorney Wright to represent you, he will work hard on your behalf, and return your e-mails and telephone calls promptly.

Ken Wright represents clients in divorce and other family law matters throughout the eastern half of Massachusetts including the Probate and Family Courts in Middlesex County (the Cambridge, Concord and Marlborough Probate and Family Courts), Suffolk County (the Probate and Family Court in Boston) , Essex County (the Salem and Lawrence Probate and Family Courts), Plymouth County (the Brockton and Plymouth Probate and Family Courts), Worcester (the Worcester and Fitchburg Probate and Family Courts), and Barnstable County (the Probate and Family Court on Cape Cod).

Ken Wright, who is a partner with Smith Duggan, was voted in 1998 as the first President of the Massachusetts Family & Probate American Inn of Court, an organization of top family and probate law trial practitioners and Probate Court judges. Mr. Wright is the founder of this organization. Approximately one-half of the Probate Court Judges joined the Inn in its first year and this same level of judicial participation has continued throughout its existence. As President of this Inn, Mr. Wright was further recognized by his being invited twice to the leadership dinner at the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsored by the United States Supreme Court and the American Inns of Court Foundation. The Inn Of Court organization focuses on trial excellence, ethics, and civility. The Massachusetts Family & Probate American Inn Of Court is believed to have the most members of any Inn Of Court in the United States.

For more information about our practice in this area, or how we might be of assistance to you, please contact: Kenneth Wright (617) 228-4448 kwright@smithduggan.com