About Matt Buckley

Matt practiced law in Coral Gables, Florida for two years prior to relocating to Vermont in 1982. He practiced exclusively in the Family Division of the Vermont Superior Court beginning in 2005.  Prior to that time, and since 1984, Family Division matters, e.g. divorce, parentage actions, property division, spousal support and child support, constituted a substantial portion of his practice.  In connection with his Family Division practice Matt frequently served, at the request and appointment of the Family Division, as Guardian Ad Litem for children involved in custody disputes, as attorney for children involved in custody disputes, and as Acting Magistrate adjudicating financial support matters.  Prior to practicing exclusively in the Family Division, Matt handled various Civil Division matters, and residential real estate transactions.

Matt specializes in mediation of Family Court matters and is able to bring to mediation sessions his extensive Family Court expertise.   In addition, Matt mediates various civil disputes, including but not limited to employment disputes, personnel issues and real estate partition actions.  In recent years, Matt has steadily expanded his dispute resolution practice, and is now engaged in mediation full time.

Ohio Wesleyan University.  B.A.  1977 History and English Literature

University of Miami School of Law, J.D. 1980

Woodbury College, Montpelier, Vermont.  Mediation Training 1999 

Vermont, 1984

Matt resides in Richmond, Vermont with his wife, Carolyn King.  He enjoys hiking, reading biography and history, playing Scottish and Irish Traditional Music and Southern Mtn. music on Highland pipes, bellows-blown pipes, fiddle, mandolin and clawhammer banjo.  Matt and Carolyn have enjoyed their dogs and cats through the years, in particular Belgian Tervuren herding dogs.