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FULL-TIME FACULTY

Charles P. Kindregan
Professor of Law

 S H O R T   B I O G R A P H Y

Instructor, Virginia Military Institute, 1961-62; Assistant Professor, Loyola, Chicago, 1963-67; Assistant Professor, Suffolk, 1967-69; Associate Professor, 1968-72; Professor, since 1972; Director, Advanced Legal Studies, 1980-88; Associate Dean, 1990-94.

Degrees:
BA, MA, LaSalle University; JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology; LLM, Northwestern University

Bar Admittance:
IL; MA

Subjects:
Domestic Relations; Equity; Family Law; Financial Issues in Divorce Cases; Law in Film and Literature; Professional Responsibility; Assisted Reproductive Technology

Professional Activities:
Chair, A.B.A, Family Law Section on Assisted Reproduction and Technology and Genetics, 2005-2007; Chair, Model Act on ART, Drafting Committee, 2005-2008; A.B.A. Family Law Publications Board, 1999-2012; Mass. Bar Assoc. Post-Goodrich Task Force, 2004-2006; Speaker, Appellate Judge's Conference, 2008; Speaker, Probate Judge's Conference, 2008; Moderator, Ethics of ART Practice, A.B.A.,Montreal, Canada 2008; Moderator, ART, A.B.A. Annual Meeting, California, 2007; Speaker, National Continuing Legal Education Conference, January 2001 and January 2006 (Colorado); Presenter, A.B.A. Family Law Section Program on Legal Ethics and the Internet, 1998; Vice Chair, A.B.A. Committee on Reproductive Technology, 2003-2004; Speaker, Conference of the American Bar Association Family Law Section on Ethics and Negotiations, Apr. 1997, Speaker, A.B.A. Family Law Section on Ethics and Office Practice, April 1997; Speaker, Oregon Bar Association, Oct. 2010; Principal Speaker, Mass. Association of Mediators; Speaker, Retreat of Mass. Appellate Judges Conference, 2008; Speaker, Frigoletto Annual Symposium, Mass. General Hospital Grand Round, 2007 and 2008; Co-reporter, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Conference on Family Violence, 1996; MA Bar Association Family Law Council; Member, MA Bar Association Task Force on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct; Vice-chair, MA Bar Association Special Committee on Legal Education; Co-chair, Committee on the Probate & Family Court, MA Bar Association, 1994-97; Co-chair, ABA Committee on Law and Family Planning, 1973-74; Vice-chair, ABA Committee on Genetic Counseling and Family Law, 1973-74; Member, Advisory Board of Editors, ABA Family Law Quarterly; Committee on Legal Education, MA Supreme Judicial Court, 1979-82; Moderator, Law of Alimony, Sept. 2011; Speaker, International Law and Surrogacy: Constitutional Implications, Las Vegas, Oct. 2011; Producer, Same-Sex Marriage: The Canadian Example, Miami, FL, April 2012; Speaker, Director's Meeting, Assn. of American Law Librarians, Boston, MA, July 2012; Presenter, Asst. Reprod. Technology, MCLE, Oct. 2012



  S E L E C T E D   P U B L I C A T I O N S
 

B O O K S

 
FAMILY LAW AND PRACTICE WITH FORMS , MASS. PRAC. SER. ( Thomson/West, 3d ed. 2013 ) (4 volumes) (with Patricia Kindregan)

MASSACHUSETTS DOMESTIC RELATIONS RULES AND STATUTES ANNOTATED WITH RELATED FEDERAL STATUTES ANNOTATED ( Thomson/West, 2012 ) (with Patricia A. Kindregan)

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A LAWYER'S GUIDE TO EMERGING LAW & SCIENCE ( 2nd ed. 2011 ) (with Maureen McBrien)

Posthumous Reproduction, in ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LEGAL DILEMMA ( Amicus Books, Anila V. Menon ed., 2008 ) (with Maureen McBrien)

ALABAMA FAMILY LAW, VOLS. 1 AND 2 ( 2008 & Supp. 2010-2013 ) (with Judith Crittenden)

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A LAWYER'S GUIDE TO THE EMERGING LAW AND SCIENCE ( 2006 & Supp. 2009- ) (with Maureen McBrien)

The Year of Same-Gender Marriage, in FAMILY LAW IN REVIEW ( 2005 ) [book chapter]

An Interactive, Traditional Approach to Teaching Family Law and Current Event Handouts, in TEACHING THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM ( Gerald Hess ed., 2004 )

MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY LAW FAST/FORMS ( 2000 ) [computer disks]

Ethics of Settlement Under the AAML Standards, in THE JOY OF SETTLEMENT ( 1998 )

POST-JUDGMENT ISSUES IN DIVORCE CASES ( Mass. Bar Ass'n., 1990 ) (with Richard Packenham)

PROPERTY AND CUSTODY RIGHTS OF UNMARRIED COUPLES ( Mass. Bar Ass'n., 1989 )

VOLS. 1-7 MASSACHUSETTS PLEADING AND PRACTICE ( 1974 & Supp. 1980-1991 ) (with Edward Swartz)

THE QUALITY OF LIFE: REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL VALUES OF AMERICAN LAW ( 1970 )

 

A R T I C L E S

 
The Alimony Revolution, ___ SUFFOLK L. REV. ___ ( forthcoming 2012 )

The Current State of Assisted Reproduction Law, 34 :2 FAM. ADVOC. 10 ( 2011 )

Learning from History: The Federal Union and Marriage, 20 S. CAL. REV. L. & SOC. JUST. 67 ( 2011 )

Genetically Related Children: Harvesting of Gametes from Deceased or Incompetent Persons, 7 J. HEALTH & BIOMED. L. 147 ( 2011 )

Taxing Parenthood: Federal Tax Law and Collaborative Reproduction, 24 AM J. FAM. L. 134 ( 2010 )

Case 21-2010: A Request for Retrieval of Oocytes from a 36-Year-Old Woman with Anoxic Brain Injury, 363 :3 NEW ENG. J. MED. 276-83 ( 2010 ) (with D. Greer, A. Styer, T. Toth, and J. Romero)

The Evolution of Same-Sex Marriage, 32 :3 FAMILY ADVOCATE 8 ( 2010 )

Dead Dads: Thawing an Heir from the Freezer, 35 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 433 ( 2009 )

Considering Mom: Maternity and the Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology, 17 AM. U.J. GENDER SOC. POL'Y & L. 601 ( 2009 )

Clarifying the Law of ART: The New American Bar Association Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology, 42 FAMILY L.Q. 203 ( 2008 ) (with Steven Snyder)

Collaborative Reproduction and Rethinking Parentage, 21 J. AM. ACAD. MATRIM. LAW. 43 ( 2008 )

Religion, Polygamy, and Non-Traditional Families: Disparate Views on the Evolution of Marriage in History and in the Debate Over Same-Sex Unions, 41 SUFFOLK. U.L. REV. 19 ( 2007 )

Thinking About the Law of Assisted Reproductive Technology, 27 WIS. J. FAM. L. 123 ( 2007 )

Relocation Law in Massachusetts Compared to the Determination of Such Cases in Georgia and Two Other States, 2006 FAM. L. REV. 1 ( 2006 ) (A comparative family law study in progress)

Posthumous Reproduction, 39 FAM. L.Q. 579 ( 2005 ) (with Maureen McBrien)

Embryo Donation, 21 :2 MASS. FAM. L.J. 42 ( 2005 ) (with Maureen McBrien)

Same-sex Marriage and Divorce Subject Matter Jurisdiction, 16 DIVORCE LITIG. J. 96 ( 2004 ) (with Monroe L. Inker)

Embryo Donation: Unresolved Legal Issues in the Transfer of Surplus Cryopreserved Embryos, 49 VILL. L. REV. 169 ( 2004 ) (with Maureen McBrien)

Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Wars and the Lessons of Legal History, 38 FAM. L. Q. 427 ( 2004 )

The Meaning of Legal Fatherhood in the Light of Paternity of Cheryl, 20 MASS. FAM. L.J. 36 ( 2002 )

Family Interests in Competiton: Relocation and Visitation, 36 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 31 ( 2002 )

The Changing Face of Modern Family Law, SUFFOLK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE ( 2001 )

Unexercised Stock Options and Marital Dissolution, 34 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 227 ( 2001 ) (with Patricia A. Kindregan)

A Quarter Century of Allocating Spousal Property Interests, 33 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 11 ( 2001 ) (with Monroe Inker)

Massa Sheds Light on Gifted Assets, 28 MASS. LAW. WKLY. 2627 ( 2000 )

The Nontraditional Family: Visitation and the New Concept of the De Facto Parent, 17 MASS. FAM. L.J. 112 ( 2000 )

Contribution to the Marital Partnership and Separate Property, 16 MASS. FAM. L.J. 129 ( 1999 ) (with Monroe Inker)

Domestic Relations: Can Custodial Parents Dictate a Child's Home?, MASS. LAW. WKLY. ( 1997 )

Inherited, Gifted and Premarital Property, MASS. LAW. WKLY. ( 1996 ) (with Monroe L. Inker)

The Professional Ethics of Negotiation and Settlement in Family Law Cases, 14 MASS. LAW. WKLY. 98 ( 1996 )

The Bankruptcy Reform Act and Its Effect on Family Law Proceedings, Judgements and Agreements, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 657 ( 1994 )

Child Support Orders Under the Long-Arm Statute, 1 MASS. ACAD. TRIAL LAW. 53 ( 1994 )

The History of the Law in Massachusetts, 27 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 340 ( 1993 )

Alimony and Assignment of Property: A Survey of the Last Decade of Massachusetts Law, 26 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 21 ( 1992 ) (with Monroe Inker, Ann Wagner, and Marcia Boumil)

The Sanderfoot and Perry Cases, 9 MASS. FAM. L.J. 84 ( 1992 )

The Marriage of Domestic Relations and Tort Law, 9 MASS. FAM. L.J. 25 ( 1991 )

Attorney's Fees in Massachusetts Domestic Relations Cases, 7 MASS. FAM. L.J. 97 ( 1990 )

 
 OTHER   PUBLICATIONS
 
Amicus Brief, GOLINSKI V. U.S. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MGT. U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit ( 2012 )

Amicus Brief, GOODRIDGE V. MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( 2003 )

The Committee on the Probate & Family Court of the Massachusetts Bar Ass'n. Family Law Section, Changing the Culture of the Probate & Family Court, Family Law Section Council of the Mass. Bar Assoc. ( 1997 ) (with Monroe Inker)

CONTEMPORARY CUTTING EDGE ISSUES IN FAMILY LAW Flaschner Judicial Institute ( 1996 )

Report of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Bench/Bar Conference, Flaschner Judicial Institute ( 1996 ) (with Patricia A. Kindregan)

Child Custody and Access Over State and International Law, The Impact of Federal Law on Domestic Relations Practice, ( 1995 ) (Massachusetts Chapter of the American Ass'n. of Matrimonial Lawyers)



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