Margaret has over twenty-five years of experience concentrating on high-asset and complex divorce cases. Margaret’s clients include business owners, public figures, elected officials, executives of publicly traded companies, successful inventors, tech entrepreneurs, attorneys, doctors, dentists, retirees, those with generational wealth, and many others. Her cases regularly involve issues relating to the valuation and division of complex assets such as business interests, private equity, commercial/investment real estate, trust rights, stock options, foreign assets, and intellectual property rights.Margaret’s practice focuses on the private, creative, and client-centered resolution of family matters, primarily through mediation, negotiation, collaborative law, and other settlement techniques, while recognizing that litigation and trial are sometimes necessary to resolve family disputes.
Margaret is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a distinction that signifies her reputation as one of the best family law attorneys in the country. She was also appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to serve four successive terms on attorney discipline system committees, first on the Professional Conduct Committee (an adjudicatory arm of the attorney discipline system) and then on the Complaint Screening Committee (a committee that determines whether there is sufficient evidence of a violation to warrant further processing of a complaint).Margaret has significant trial experience and holds the designation of NITA Advocate. She is listed in New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Lawyers and has held a Martindale AV rating, the highest possible rating, for more than a decade.
In addition, Margaret is recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Family Law, Mediation, Arbitration, and Collaborative Law. She was named “Lawyer of the Year” in 2026, 2025, 2024, 2022, and 2018 by Best Lawyers. She has also been recognized by Super Lawyers for more than a decade.
Margaret has over twenty-five years of experience concentrating on high-asset and complex divorce cases. Margaret’s clients include business owners, public figures, elected officials, executives of publicly traded companies, successful inventors, tech entrepreneurs, attorneys, doctors, dentists, retirees, those with generational wealth, and many others. Her cases regularly involve issues relating to the valuation and division of complex assets such as business interests, private equity, commercial/investment real estate, trust rights, stock options, foreign assets, and intellectual property rights.
Margaret’s practice focuses on the private, creative, and client-centered resolution of family matters, primarily through mediation, negotiation, collaborative law, and other settlement techniques, while recognizing that litigation and trial are sometimes necessary to resolve family disputes. Margaret is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), a distinction that signifies her reputation as one of the best family law attorneys in the country. She was also appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to serve four successive terms on attorney discipline system committees, first on the Professional Conduct Committee (an adjudicatory arm of the attorney discipline system) and then on the Complaint Screening Committee (a committee that determines whether there is sufficient evidence of a violation to warrant further processing of a complaint).
Margaret has significant trial experience and holds the designation of NITA Advocate. She is listed in New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Lawyers and has held a Martindale AV rating, the highest possible rating, for more than a decade. In addition, Margaret is recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Family Law, Mediation, Arbitration, and Collaborative Law.
She was named “Lawyer of the Year” in 2026, 2025, 2024, 2022, and 2018 by Best Lawyers. She has also been recognized by Super Lawyers for more than a decade.
