Experience
Charlene A. Caldeira has close to 25 years of litigation experience in family law and appellate procedure in matters across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She handles the most complex family law matters, including high conflict custody cases and divorces involving multi-million-dollar estates.
In addition to her litigation experience, Ms. Caldeira focuses her practice on appellate law. She has served as a Supreme Judicial Law Clerk for Associate Justice Neil Lynch and co-authored the 2nd edition of Appellate Procedure of the Massachusetts Practice Series. As an adjunct professor at New England School of Law, she continues to lecture and chair numerous Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Seminars. She has also been counsel on numerous notable Appellate cases, including those in the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals and has been appointed as Guardian ad litem and a Special Master for Discovery by the Probate & Family Court.
Admitted in the Courts of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts in 1998, The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2000, and The United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit in 2000. Charlene A. Caldeira is an experienced and well-versed attorney whose expertise is the core of Melcher Law, PC.
Charlene focuses primarily on Family law and Divorce.
Education
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Juris Doctor. 1998
Awards and Honors
- Cum laude
Bridgewater State University
- Bachelor of Science 1994
- Cum Laude
- Major in Psychology
Certifications & Associations
- Massachusetts Bar, Member in Good Standing
Classes and Seminars
- How to Win Removal Cases, Boston Bar Association
- The Child’s Voice/Crafting and Effective Parenting Plan, MCLE
Specialties and Certifications
- Guardian Ad Litem, MA Probate and Family Court
- Special Master for Discovery, MA Probate and Family Court
Representative Cases
- Whallon v. Lynn 1st Circuit, 230 F.3d 450, 2000, 1st Circuit
- Britton v. Britton, 69 Mass. App. Ct. 23, 2007, Mass App
- Schulman v. Schulman, 51 N.E.3d 509, 2016, Mass App