DONALD G. TYE is cochair and a partner in the domestic relations practice group at the Boston firm of Prince Lobel Tye LLP. His practice focuses on civil, probate, and domestic relations litigation, as well as appeals. He has some thirty years of experience as an attorney, guardian ad litem, master, mediator, arbitrator, author, and lecturer. Previously, he was a partner with Crane & Inker (then White, Inker & Aronson, PC), where he was involved in all phases of litigation, with an emphasis on trial and appeals of complex domestic relations matters. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, as well as a member of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston bar associations family law sections. In 2006, Mr. Tye was appointed cochair of MCLE’s Family Law Curriculum Advisory Committee, having been a committee member since 1999. He was the coeditor of the “Domestic Relations” chapter in Summary of Basic Law, a selection of the Massachusetts Practice Series (published by West Publishing Company), and editor of the “Divorce” chapter in the Massachusetts Bar Association publication Traps for the Unwary. As a member of the board of editors and editor emeritus of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Mr. Tye has written numerous editorials on subjects relating to domestic relations law and policies. His work has also been featured in The Massachusetts Family Law Journal, Boston Bar Journal, Family Advocate, and Best of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Journal. He is a frequent lecturer and panelist in the areas of trial practice and divorce and child-related issues at Harvard Law School, Boston College Law School, Suffolk University School of Law, Brown University Medical Center, Boston University Graduate School of Social Work, MCLE, American Psychological Association, Boston Public Schools (Partners in Education, Inc.,), Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem, and the Maine, Massachusetts, and Boston bar associations. Mr. Tye has been recognized as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer” since 2004 and one of the “Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers” since 2009 in Boston magazine, and a “Top Attorney in New England” by New England Super Lawyers. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (M.S.W. and J.D.) and Tufts University (B.A.). He is the vice president and program chair of Ford Hall Forum and one of twenty-one members of the Judicial Nominating Committee appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts.  (September 2010)