PRACTICE AREAS

Divorce 

Child Custody 

Child Support  

Alimony / Spousal Support 

Separation Agreements 

Property Division 

Interstate Removal 

Unmarried Partner Disputes 

Paternity Actions  

Third Party ART

Egg, Embryo & Sperm Donation

Modifications 

Contempt Actions 

Domestic Violence/Restraining Orders 

Grandparents Rights 

International Kidnapping

                    BIOGRAPHY

             JESSICA L. BERRIEN 

In 2006, Attorney Berrien founded

Jessica L. Berrien Attorney at Law, LLC in Northampton, MA, moving to

Easthampton, MA, in 2018. Attorney Berrien represents clients in family law cases, practicing primarily in the western MA divisions of the Probate & Family Court. She appears in Court regularly on motions for temporary orders, motions for support/custody and on contempt hearings.

Attorney Jessica L. Berrien represents egg, embryo and sperm donors in third party ART (assisted reproductive technology) cases.

Education

Attorney Berrien is a graduate of Tufts University and Suffolk  Law School, graduating  magna cum laude. She was a note editor of the Suffolk Transnational Law Review and author of "Intercountry Adoption Laws" Suffolk Transnational Law Review No. 20 P. 283 (1998).

Attorney Berrien worked as a law

clerk to the Justices  of  the MA Superior Court; at a Boston firm in the litigation group; at a Boston area firm in family law; and at an Amherst, Massachusetts firm in family law, civil litigation and real estate. 

Associations/Memberships

Attorney Berrien is a member of the  Hampshire Franklin & Mass. Bar Associations and a panel Attorney

for Safe Passage, a domestic violence advocacy group. She is the founder of and runs a Math Club at  a local school for third through fifth graders and volunteers for the Jimmy Fund.

Attorney Jessica L. Berrien has lectured for the National Business Institute’s Continuing Legal Education for Professionals Seminar “Handling Divorce Cases from Start to Finish”

and she taught high school students

Financial Literacy through a program at the Hampshire Bar Association.

Attorney Berrien enjoys spending time with her husband and three sons and three rescue dogs, watching and being involved in her son's baseball teams, watching the Red Sox, reading books, exercising and being outside. 

                OUR APPROACH 

At Jessica L. Berrien, Attorney  at Law,  LLC, we care greatly about each client's unique family situation and we will advocate fiercely for you

work with you to help you negotiate

change. 

You will  be given individualized

attention and can feel confident that

your needs will be taken care of,

whether  it  means  attending  Court

or  negotiating outside of Court, we

will work toward a final resolution that you can live with.

Attorney Jessica L. Berrien has been practicing family law for 18 plus years  and has been practicing in Western Massachusetts for 14 plus years. She has longstanding relationships with many attorneys in the area and works regularly at the  local Courts.  

Check out her Testimonials section and then make a free phone consultation or book an in-person first meeting to discuss your needs.