Nicole A. Forbes

by Mike DeBlasi | February 1, 2022 12:10 am

Nicole is an experienced and collaboratively trained family law lawyer, assisting clients in resolving their family crises in an efficient manner with empathy, compassion, and collegiality. Through thoughtful and tailored strategy unique to client goals and creative solutions to maximize family wealth and limit familial turmoil, she works with self-employed individuals, business owners, business executives, attorneys, dentists, doctors, human resource professionals, homemakers, education professionals, retirees, tradesmen, and others to achieve results that work best for them and their families.

Through full representations or consultation arrangements, Nicole assists clients with divorces (including those involving high net-worth marital estates, trust assets, business interests, multiple real estate holdings, and other potentially complex assets), divorce planning, legal separations, parenting (formerly custody) matters, guardianships, contempt matters, child support matters and modification, alimony modification, other post-divorce issues, and more.

Nicole resolves most cases through negotiation, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution methods, representing clients at court proceedings when needed. She has briefed and argued cases before the New Hampshire Circuit Court Family Division, including those on the specialized Family Division Complex Case Docket, designed for high-value and/or highly contentious matters, the New Hampshire Circuit Court Probate Division, and the New Hampshire Circuit Court District Division. Nicole has also briefed cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, New Hampshire Superior Court, and New Hampshire Circuit Court Probate Division’s specialized Trust Docket, designed for complex trust cases.

Past Experience

Prior to joining the firm, Nicole practiced family law and probate litigation at a large New Hampshire law firm. She was also a judicial intern for the Honorable Judge Richard Tucker, Massachusetts Superior Court for Worcester County. She was a research assistant for Dean, then Professor, Andrew Perlman for “A Behavioral Theory of Legal Ethics” published in the University of Indiana Law Journal, Professor Charles P. Kindregan for the third edition of Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Lawyer’s Guide to Emerging Law & Science to be published by the American Bar Association, and Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung for work on active New England Innocence Project cases. As a research assistant for Professor Hartung, Nicole worked on an amicus brief filed with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of a wrongfully convicted man, leading to his release from prison on a stay of execution and eventual exoneration.

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Endnotes:
  1. Orr & Reno Family Law Blog: https://orr-reno.com/category/law-blog/fam-law/

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