About Donald Tye

Donald G. Tye is a founding partner and has been co-chair of the Domestic Relations Practice Group at Prince Lobel Tye LLP in Boston (a multi-practice firm of 100 plus lawyers which handles matters of local, regional, national, and international reach). He has over forty-five years of experience as a trial attorney, guardian ad litem, a master, an attorney for children (including the Massachusetts Attorneys Representing Children “ARC” Program), and an arbitrator. He is also certified by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) as a mediator, and conciliator. He has prepared and argued numerous cases on appeal to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court.

Mr. Tye is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He was national co-chair of national AAML’s legislation committee; during 2009 and 2010 he served on its Special Concerns for Children Committee, which was responsible for updating and revising the AAML’s National Standards for Attorneys for Children in Custody or Visitation proceedings.; In 2014 he was appointed to AAML’s Impact of Special Needs Children Committee; and in 2013, 2015, and 2017 he was appointed a member of its Continuing Legal Education Committee. He was president of the AAML Massachusetts chapter 2005 – 2007, and since then has been elected to the Board of Managers. He received the Massachusetts AAML Chapter’s “President’s Award” in 1998 and 2004. He was elected a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers in 2020. Since 1999, he has been a member of the Family Law Curriculum Advisory Committee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and was co-chair from 2006 through 2008. He is a member of the Family Law Section of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations, and was appointed to the MBA Family Law Section Council, on which he has served since 2010. He is an Editor Emeritus on the Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.