Catharine Gavenonis´ practice includes the representation of individuals involved in all sorts of family law litigation and disputes, including divorce actions, custody actions, support actions, restraining orders, modification of divorce, custody, support agreements, and prenuptial agreements.
Attorney Gavenonis has been involved in family law for a number of years. While an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, she clerked for Judge Margaret T. Murphy in the Domestic Relations Division of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, honing her legal research skills and drafting family law opinions. While both an undergraduate and a law student at Boston University School of Law, Ms. Gavenonis, a European History major, did in-depth studies on the medieval law of women, writing lengthy papers on both medieval marriage law and probate law. She won the Jeannette Nichols Prize for Women's and Social History for her paper "Marriage Law and the Status of Women in Medieval Wales" at her graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in May, 2003.
