Elena Tsizer
Framingham, MA
Licensed for 31 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Child custody
Language
Russian Ukrainian
About
Attorney Rhonda Levey has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1990 and a member of the New York Bar since 1991. Rhonda retired in 2018 from the New York State Bar. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Framingham State College and earned her Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law. Rhonda has more than twenty-five years of experience as a litigator working in both the government and private sector.After completing law school, Rhonda worked as an Assistant County Attorney prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases, termination of parental rights, child custody, and visitation cases for the Broome County Department of Social Services. Rhonda was the supervising attorney for the child support enforcement and collection units for Broome County, NY, where she represented the County in hundreds of support cases each year. After moving back to Massachusetts, Rhonda returned to her passion of working in family law, representing individual clients and families. Before joining Tsizer Law, P.C., Rhonda was an attorney at a boutique family law firm in Lexington, Massachusetts, from 2007 until 2019.Rhonda’s practice is concentrated in all areas of domestic relations including divorce, paternity, custody and post-divorce actions, such as contempt, modification and post-judgment motions. She maintains a diverse caseload including highly contentious custody battles, cases with complicated asset divisions for high net worth clients and business owners, and cases involving children with special educational needs and mental health issues as those issues intersect with divorce. Rhonda has represented clients with international ramifications such as preparing and providing an Affidavit to the United States Consulate in Cape Town, South Africa, assisting her client in arguing against the jurisdiction of the High Court in South Africa, and preventing issuance of permanent custody orders abroad regarding a minor child who is an American citizen. Rhonda has assisted other clients with international custody and visitation issues.Rhonda has been a guest on the radio show “Talking About the Law”, during which she discussed divorce and contested child custody issues.Rhonda is also very passionate about her volunteer work which includes being on the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center Human Rights Committee; fostering kittens for two local animal shelters; volunteering for the Immune Deficiency Foundation; and assisting in fundraising activities for Jeff’s Place, which provides peer support groups for children and their caregivers who are coping with the death of a parent or sibling.
Practices Areas
Child custody
Child support
Divorce and separation
Family
Language
Russian Ukrainian
Contact
Reviews
Rhonda is the second divorce attorney I have hired, after being disillusioned by my first attorney who, in the end, I felt did not represent me well. I hired Rhonda AFTER my divorce to negotiate a change in child custody and support. She is practical, realistic, honest and tough and, most importantly, she listens. She achieved for me a very good outcome. She also provided me with a referral when I needed an attorney for an unrelated matter. I highly recommend her for anyone facing the stressful and painful process of a divorce or custody dispute.
Rhonda Levey helped me in my recent divorce and provided me expert guidance and support. She is a great listener and truly an expert in her field. I felt very confident in her representation and could not have chosen a better attorney. I highly recommend Rhonda.
Calm, confident, reassuring and works with difficult cases. Extremely knowledgeable in her field and several others. Easy to work with and gives excellent advice for those seeking her services. She would be the person I would always hire or work with when seeking a divorce or having custody issues.
Ms Levey is has eons of experience in the field of law and due to this fact, she competently can anticipate the case's direction (ie: money related questions). She works excellently in 'the system' with the various professionals with whom she comes in contact in the execution of a case. I hired Ms Levey to conduct my divorce and was pleased with the outcome. I don't think there could be a more committed lawyer or one who could make herself as available to me (ie: questions, etc).
I don't think anyone plans in their life to be forced into a position of having to hire a divorce lawyer. Divorce was never in my vocabulary. I am a devout Catholic and both of our parents stayed in their marriages until death did them part. But, after 21 years of being happily married and raising 2 wonderful daughters together, I was suddenly betrayed and abandoned by my wife who decided that being selfish and living just for herself was a better idea than a committed sacrificial marriage. I was in total shock and disbelief and desperate as I now found myself being emotionally abused and intimidated nonstop, by my supposedly best friend. Why? Because I didn't want the marriage to end. After interviewing several attorneys, I decided on a firm and Rhonda Levey was appointed my divorce attorney who was described as a "Shark" in the courtroom. After meeting with Rhonda, we came up with a strategy and stuck to the plan. Rhonda was very compassionate and caring, yet firm with me when I let my emotions get the best of me, which was basically all the time. She was courteous to my spouse and her representative even though they made a straight-forward divorce overly complicated and drawn out. In the end, Rhonda did her best preparing for the pre-hearing, and prepping me. Everything proceeded as she has said. Her performance in front of the judge was terrific. I basically put all my trust in her and she delivered. Initially, I thought to myself "when is the Shark going to appear?" But now I realized that Rhonda used experience and patience to strike at the right time, which she did. In the end, I wish this nightmare never had to occur, but if I wasn't represented with good counsel from Rhonda, I probably would have been steam rolled and lost everything I worked hard for. The divorce took about a year and I was eventually able to buy out my ex-wife and keep my home and am living there with my 2 daughters. And as of this date I am not paying any alimony and am receiving some child support. I would also like add that during the past 5 years (when my nightmare began), I have met many victims going through similar situations as mine, both male and female (funny how you suddenly meet up with these new friends). Most of them were on their 2nd or 3rd lawyer after the first year having to pay an extraordinary expense. I won't deny my expense was much more than we had initially planned, and I was not pleased with that to say the least. But that was mostly the fault of my wife and her attorney unnecessarily dragging things out. Rhonda reassured me and in hindsight, if I had not trusted her, I would have probably had a much worse outcome. So, I would highly recommend Rhonda Levey to represent you, especially, if you find yourself the unfortunate victim of an unjust divorce.
Rhonda is the second divorce attorney I have hired, after being disillusioned by my first attorney who, in the end, I felt did not represent me well. I hired Rhonda AFTER my divorce to negotiate a change in child custody and support. She is practical, realistic, honest and tough and, most importantly, she listens. She achieved for me a very good outcome. She also provided me with a referral when I needed an attorney for an unrelated matter. I highly recommend her for anyone facing the stressful and painful process of a divorce or custody dispute.
Rhonda Levey helped me in my recent divorce and provided me expert guidance and support. She is a great listener and truly an expert in her field. I felt very confident in her representation and could not have chosen a better attorney. I highly recommend Rhonda.
Calm, confident, reassuring and works with difficult cases. Extremely knowledgeable in her field and several others. Easy to work with and gives excellent advice for those seeking her services. She would be the person I would always hire or work with when seeking a divorce or having custody issues.
Ms Levey is has eons of experience in the field of law and due to this fact, she competently can anticipate the case's direction (ie: money related questions). She works excellently in 'the system' with the various professionals with whom she comes in contact in the execution of a case. I hired Ms Levey to conduct my divorce and was pleased with the outcome. I don't think there could be a more committed lawyer or one who could make herself as available to me (ie: questions, etc).
I don't think anyone plans in their life to be forced into a position of having to hire a divorce lawyer. Divorce was never in my vocabulary. I am a devout Catholic and both of our parents stayed in their marriages until death did them part. But, after 21 years of being happily married and raising 2 wonderful daughters together, I was suddenly betrayed and abandoned by my wife who decided that being selfish and living just for herself was a better idea than a committed sacrificial marriage. I was in total shock and disbelief and desperate as I now found myself being emotionally abused and intimidated nonstop, by my supposedly best friend. Why? Because I didn't want the marriage to end. After interviewing several attorneys, I decided on a firm and Rhonda Levey was appointed my divorce attorney who was described as a "Shark" in the courtroom. After meeting with Rhonda, we came up with a strategy and stuck to the plan. Rhonda was very compassionate and caring, yet firm with me when I let my emotions get the best of me, which was basically all the time. She was courteous to my spouse and her representative even though they made a straight-forward divorce overly complicated and drawn out. In the end, Rhonda did her best preparing for the pre-hearing, and prepping me. Everything proceeded as she has said. Her performance in front of the judge was terrific. I basically put all my trust in her and she delivered. Initially, I thought to myself "when is the Shark going to appear?" But now I realized that Rhonda used experience and patience to strike at the right time, which she did. In the end, I wish this nightmare never had to occur, but if I wasn't represented with good counsel from Rhonda, I probably would have been steam rolled and lost everything I worked hard for. The divorce took about a year and I was eventually able to buy out my ex-wife and keep my home and am living there with my 2 daughters. And as of this date I am not paying any alimony and am receiving some child support. I would also like add that during the past 5 years (when my nightmare began), I have met many victims going through similar situations as mine, both male and female (funny how you suddenly meet up with these new friends). Most of them were on their 2nd or 3rd lawyer after the first year having to pay an extraordinary expense. I won't deny my expense was much more than we had initially planned, and I was not pleased with that to say the least. But that was mostly the fault of my wife and her attorney unnecessarily dragging things out. Rhonda reassured me and in hindsight, if I had not trusted her, I would have probably had a much worse outcome. So, I would highly recommend Rhonda Levey to represent you, especially, if you find yourself the unfortunate victim of an unjust divorce.
Rhonda is the second divorce attorney I have hired, after being disillusioned by my first attorney who, in the end, I felt did not represent me well. I hired Rhonda AFTER my divorce to negotiate a change in child custody and support. She is practical, realistic, honest and tough and, most importantly, she listens. She achieved for me a very good outcome. She also provided me with a referral when I needed an attorney for an unrelated matter. I highly recommend her for anyone facing the stressful and painful process of a divorce or custody dispute.
Rhonda Levey helped me in my recent divorce and provided me expert guidance and support. She is a great listener and truly an expert in her field. I felt very confident in her representation and could not have chosen a better attorney. I highly recommend Rhonda.
Calm, confident, reassuring and works with difficult cases. Extremely knowledgeable in her field and several others. Easy to work with and gives excellent advice for those seeking her services. She would be the person I would always hire or work with when seeking a divorce or having custody issues.
Ms Levey is has eons of experience in the field of law and due to this fact, she competently can anticipate the case's direction (ie: money related questions). She works excellently in 'the system' with the various professionals with whom she comes in contact in the execution of a case. I hired Ms Levey to conduct my divorce and was pleased with the outcome. I don't think there could be a more committed lawyer or one who could make herself as available to me (ie: questions, etc).
I don't think anyone plans in their life to be forced into a position of having to hire a divorce lawyer. Divorce was never in my vocabulary. I am a devout Catholic and both of our parents stayed in their marriages until death did them part. But, after 21 years of being happily married and raising 2 wonderful daughters together, I was suddenly betrayed and abandoned by my wife who decided that being selfish and living just for herself was a better idea than a committed sacrificial marriage. I was in total shock and disbelief and desperate as I now found myself being emotionally abused and intimidated nonstop, by my supposedly best friend. Why? Because I didn't want the marriage to end. After interviewing several attorneys, I decided on a firm and Rhonda Levey was appointed my divorce attorney who was described as a "Shark" in the courtroom. After meeting with Rhonda, we came up with a strategy and stuck to the plan. Rhonda was very compassionate and caring, yet firm with me when I let my emotions get the best of me, which was basically all the time. She was courteous to my spouse and her representative even though they made a straight-forward divorce overly complicated and drawn out. In the end, Rhonda did her best preparing for the pre-hearing, and prepping me. Everything proceeded as she has said. Her performance in front of the judge was terrific. I basically put all my trust in her and she delivered. Initially, I thought to myself "when is the Shark going to appear?" But now I realized that Rhonda used experience and patience to strike at the right time, which she did. In the end, I wish this nightmare never had to occur, but if I wasn't represented with good counsel from Rhonda, I probably would have been steam rolled and lost everything I worked hard for. The divorce took about a year and I was eventually able to buy out my ex-wife and keep my home and am living there with my 2 daughters. And as of this date I am not paying any alimony and am receiving some child support. I would also like add that during the past 5 years (when my nightmare began), I have met many victims going through similar situations as mine, both male and female (funny how you suddenly meet up with these new friends). Most of them were on their 2nd or 3rd lawyer after the first year having to pay an extraordinary expense. I won't deny my expense was much more than we had initially planned, and I was not pleased with that to say the least. But that was mostly the fault of my wife and her attorney unnecessarily dragging things out. Rhonda reassured me and in hindsight, if I had not trusted her, I would have probably had a much worse outcome. So, I would highly recommend Rhonda Levey to represent you, especially, if you find yourself the unfortunate victim of an unjust divorce.