Nicole A. Forbes

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, 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. In addition to her work for clients, Nicole regularly writes and speaks on various family law topics.

When not practicing law, Nicole enjoys spending time with family and friends, volunteering, traveling, reading, writing, art, and sports—especially New England Patriots football.