Regina Snow Mandl
Partner
Practice Areas
Biography
Regina Snow Mandl, head of The Wagner Law Group's Trusts & Estates and Family Law teams, has over 30 years' experience specializing in family law, estate planning and administration, and probate litigation. The focus of her career has been to strive for excellence in the delivery of personal law services to individuals and families. While fully prepared to go to court when necessary, Regina believes that most matters can be resolved through negotiation, or a form of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation or conciliation. Regina will counsel clients in these processes, and she is also a qualified mediator and conciliator. She has been selected annually to the prestigious Super Lawyers list since 2012.
Family Law
Regina's practice covers a wide range of family law matters including: contested and uncontested divorces, custody disputes, removal cases, modifications, contempt actions, restraining orders, pre-marital and post-marital agreements, guardianships, and conservatorships. Regina has a particular knowledge of inherited property cases in divorce, and has handled divorce cases involving family assets of $25,000,000 and more.
Estate Planning and Administration
Regina offers clients a comprehensive estate plan, including: wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney, health care proxies, HIPAA releases, living wills and declaration of homestead. When the time comes, Regina will efficiently guide her clients through the process of probating the estate.
Probate and Family Law Litigation
Regina will counsel clients who engage in mediation and collaborative law. However, she understands that this does not always work. When this happens and alternative dispute resolution is not viable, Regina represents clients in contested family law and probate litigation matters, including divorces, child custody and removal cases, will contests, claims against the estate, guardianships, conservatorships, and petitions to partition real estate.
Publications & Media
Publications/Quotations/Appearances
- “Lawyers Who Care” Podcast – July 14, 2022
- Regina Snow Mandl Named a Massachusetts Trusts and Estates “Go To Lawyer” – The Wagner Law Group Press Release, January 7, 2022
- Massachusetts “Go to Lawyers” – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – December 2021 (PDF)
- Primer on the Code’s Required Minimum Distribution Rules: Post-SECURE Act – Regina Mandl and Barry Salkin thanked by author Kathryn Kennedy, Bloomberg Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, June 4, 2021
- Seven Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group Named to 2020 Super Lawyers Lists – November 3, 2020
- The SECURE Act’s Impact on Estate Planning and Administration – The Wagner Law Group FREE Webinar, March 26, 2020, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (ET) –
- Regina Snow Mandl Appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to the Position of Vice Chair of the Clients’ Security Board – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, February 7, 2020
- Regina Snow Mandl Appointed Vice Chair of Massachusetts Clients’ Security Board – January 28, 2020
- “Estate Planning for Surviving Spouses: What to Do ASAP” – Kiplinger, September 18, 2018
- “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: The New Federal Divorce Law” – The Bencher, American Inns of Court Foundation, September/October 2018
- “Movants and Shakers” – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, May 7, 2018
- New Associations – MA Lawyers Weekly, April 26, 2018
- Appearance on NewTV, “That’s the Law!”, “The New Federal Divorce Law,” April 3, 2018
- How the TCJA Could Drive You to Divorce – Tax Notes, March 12, 2018
- “The New Federal Divorce Law” – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly February 26, 2018
- Exes and Taxes – Regina Mandl, Associated Press, December 22, 2017
- Client Alert: “Repeal of the Alimony Deduction – It’s Back,” January 3, 2018
- Client Alert: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act H.R.1; Section 1309; Repeal of the Alimony Deduction, November 6, 2017
- Memorandum to Clients and Friends, 2013 Child Support Guidelines
- Memorandum to Clients and Friends, Massachusetts Alimony Reform Act, February, 2012
- Memorandum to Clients and Friends, Retirement and Other Beneficiary Designations,February 12, 2009, in light of Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings and Investment Plan, et. al., decided January 26, 2009, No. 07-636
- “Estate Planning Tips for Parents of Divorcing Children,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (December 16, 2002).
- “An Overview of the Law of Advance Directives: How Massachusetts Answered the Call,” Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. XXVI, Number 1, 1993
- R. Snow, “Lorenzo Monaco: The Bourgeois Monk,” Vol. XI Historian 35, May, 1970
Classes & Seminars
- Speaker, Family Law and Estate Planning Topics
- Speaker, Family Law and Estate Planning Topics, Boston Society for Gerontologic Psychiatry, Inc.
- Speaker, Family Law and Estate Planning Topics, Boston Bar Association, Estate Planning Section
Education
- Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
- J.D. - 1974
- New York University, New York, New York
- B.A. - 1971
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1974
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1981
- U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1975
- United States Supreme Court
- Pennsylvania, 2022
Professional Associations
- American Inns of Court
- Massachusetts Probate and Family American Inn of Court, Founding member and past president
- National America Inns of Court Foundation, Washington, D.C., Past board member
- American Inns of Court Foundation, Past member of the executive committee
- Spearheaded the Family Law Inn Alliance
- Delegate to the Middle Temple Inn, London, England
- Massachusetts Clients’ Security Board, appointed Vice-Chair, 2020, 2017
- Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Hearing Officer, 2002 to 2008
- New York University Lawyer Alumni Mentoring Program, Board Member
- Mayor's Committee for the Newton Free Library, Past Member
- Design Review Committee for the Newton Free Library, Mayor's Representative
- Wayland Public Schools Foundation, Past board member
- Master Plan Study Advisory Committee, Wayland, MA, Board of Selectmen representative
- Fessenden Parents Association, Past President
Honors
- Massachusetts Super Lawyer, 2012 – Present
- Trusts & Estates “Go to Lawyer” – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – 2021
- Appointed Vice-Chair of the Massachusetts Clients’ Security Board, January 2020
- American Academy for Certified Financial Litigators, CFL designee
- Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts – Boston Magazine, 2016
- Boston Globe’s 2015 Top Rated Lawyers of 2015
- Recognized by Boston Magazine as one of the top women attorneys in Massachusetts and by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of its Top Women of Law, 2014
- Martindale Hubbell Rated “AV” 5.0 Preeminent
- New York University Founders Day Award, Alexander Schluger Award
Law Alerts
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