Carolyn A. D'Agostino is a 1994 graduate of Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, magna cum laude where she was a member of the Loyola Law Journal and an editor of the Loyola Consumer Law Reporter.  She graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, with a double major in Economics and English Literature and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  From 1994 until 1996 she was an associate at the Albany Law firm of Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna.  She is the former Director of Hearing Administration and the Matrimonial Unit at the New York State Retirement Systems, where she administered the agency's disability hearings and DRO acceptance processes and drafted the procedures used by that agency in reviewing and accepting DROs many of which have been adopted by other public retirement systems in the state.  She has been a Continuing Legal Education speaker at bar association functions throughout the state of New York, and is presently a member of  the Collaborative Divorce Association of the Hudson Valley and  of the Rensselaer County Bar Association, where she serves as a Vice-President on both boards.

In addition to concentrating on the division of retirement assets in divorce matters, Ms. D'Agostino is a trained mediator and represents parties in collaborative divorce matters, estate planning and elder law, and issues affecting same-sex and other non-married partners such as parenting agreements, partnership agreements, dissolution, and estate planning.  She is a candidate for an LLM (Master of Laws) degree in Estate Planning and Elder Law at Western New England College of Law. She has three children and is an avid quilter, reader and knitter.

email at carolyn.dagostino@gmail.com