MARYANNE CHARDO JOHNSON | Mediator
MWI Divorce & Marital Panel
Four Faneuil Hall - Fourth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02109-1632
Phone: 617-973-9739 | Fax: 617-973-9532 | Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Web: www.mwi.org/divorce

“First of all, thank you! I can honestly say that without you, I don't think “H” and I could have gone as far as we did in mediation. It takes a person of great skill and a great deal of patience to reach an agreement between “H” and myself. You are truly a very gifted individual!” -Divorce Mediation Client

Dispute Resolution Experience MaryAnne Chardo Johnson is an attorney, mediator, and teacher. A cum laude graduate of Boston College, MaryAnne holds a B.A. in education and a J.D. from Southern New England School of Law. MaryAnne’s private practice focuses on non-adversarial family law and divorce and family mediation. MaryAnne also provides counsel for a number of individual clients on a wide range of interpersonal and family matters. In her private practice and as a member of MWI’s distinguished Panel of Divorce and Marital Mediators, MaryAnne has successfully mediated numerous disputes associated with separation, divorce, and post-divorce modifications, and has helped even previously contentious divorcing, divorced and never-married clients create workable, mutually satisfactory separation agreements, modifications and parenting plans. MaryAnne is the former Program Coordinator of the Probate and Family Court’s Access and Visitation Project, a court-based Parent Education Program for never-married parents. As Coordinator, MaryAnne presented the program weekly to the mostly pro se litigants in the Suffolk and Middlesex Divisions and contributed to the development of written educational materials and updates on court procedures and practices relating to custody, parenting and child support. MaryAnne’s professional experience also includes extensive freelance editing and legal research for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). Within the last few years she has reviewed, revised and/or updated numerous chapters and supplements to many of the various MCLE practice manuals; updated entire MCLE Sourcebooks and Citators; and completed a multitude of other research and editing projects. An experienced Court Advocate, MaryAnne has also provided assistance and support to victims of domestic violence in the Plymouth Probate and Family Court as well as the District Courts in Plymouth, Hingham, and Wareham. MaryAnne currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers (MAWL) as MAWL’s President –Elect and is a member of the Justinian Law Society of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bar Association. Representative Matters Divorce Mediation Post-Divorce Modification Mediation Never-Married Parents Mediation Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities President-Elect, Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers Member, Board of Directors, Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers Member, Justinian Law Society of Massachusetts Member, Massachusetts Bar Association Background and Education Mediator, MWI Divorce and Marital Mediation Panel, Boston, MA, 2003-present Owner, Law Office of MaryAnne Johnson, Esq., Weymouth, MA, 2005-present Freelance editor Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) 2005-2008 Peer Mediation Program Coordinator, Boston Community Leadership Academy, 2002-2005 Program Coordinator, Access and Visitation Program, Probate and Family Court, Middlesex and Suffolk Divisions, 2002 Juris Doctor, Southern New England School of Law 2001 B.A., cum laude, Boston College 1970