Fellow: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), Massachusetts Chapter (President 2013-2015). Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), Massachusetts Chapter; Member: Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, Family Law Section; Boston Bar Association, Family Law Section, Steering Committee; Massachusetts Bar Association, Family Law Section Council (family law editor of Section Review, a legal periodical published by the Massachusetts Bar Association). Listed: Top 10 Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2013, Boston Magazine; Top 100 New England Super Lawyers 2009-present, Boston Magazine; Naifeh & Smith, The Best Lawyers in America – Family Law 2008-present. Frequent lecturer on family law issues for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) and others, involving such matters as alimony, child support, custody, property division and interstate/international jurisdictional issues. Mr. Rivers has written extensively on family law jurisdictional practice and procedure, including articles on such cutting edge issues as interstate child support enforcement and modification under UIFSA and trial and appellate experience involving litigation of interstate/international child custody and child support issues. Author, “Child Support Orders in Paternity Cases”, Massachusetts Family Law Journal (November 1999); Author, “Traps for the Unwary in Modification Proceedings Involving the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act”, Mass. Bar Institute (2000); Author, “The ‘Double Dipping’ Concept in Business Valuation for Divorce Purposes”, Mass. Bar Institute (2006); Author, “Child Support Orders in High Income Cases – Searching for Guidelines”, Massachusetts Lawyers Journal (March 2011).
