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 for the New York State Bar Association, the Albany County Bar Association, the Erie County Bar Association, and the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation on the issues of the division of pension benefits in divorce.

In addition to concentrating on the division of retirement assets in divorce matters, Ms. D'Agostino's additional practice areas include representing the disabled and their loved ones in matters such as Social Security disability law, special education law, and estate planning, in particular, the creation of special needs trusts.  She may be reached at (518) 391-9650 (cell) or (518) 266-1035 (after April 1, 2007) or by mail at

email at carolyn.dagostino@gmail.com