Margaret R. Kerouac

Margaret has more than twenty years of experience focused on high-asset and complex divorce cases.  Her practice concentrates on the private, creative and client-centered resolution of family matters primarily through mediation, negotiation, collaborative law and other settlement techniques, but with the recognition that litigation and trial are sometimes necessary to resolve family disputes. Margaret’s clients include business owners, public figures, elected officials, executives of publicly-traded companies, successful inventors, attorneys, doctors, dentists, retirees, those with inherited wealth and many others.  Her cases regularly involve issues relating to the valuation and division of complex assets such as business interests, trust rights, stock options, investment real estate, foreign assets, and intellectual property rights. She also handles a variety of other disputes relating to divorce, parenting rights, modification, support and many other matters. Margaret is also experienced in the preparation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

Margaret is listed in New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Lawyers and holds a Martindale AV rating, the highest possible rating.  She has been recognized by SuperLawyers since 2009. In addition, Margaret is recognized by Best Lawyers in the areas of Family Law, Mediation, Arbitration, and Collaborative Law.  She was named “Family Law Lawyer of the Year” in 2018 and 2022 by Best Lawyers.  Margaret has significant trial experience and holds the designation of NITA Advocate.  She was appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to serve on the Professional Conduct Committee, an adjudicatory arm of the attorney discipline system.

Margaret served as an elected leader, and ultimately chair, of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Family Law Section from 2005-2012. She was also a founding member and chair of two collaborative law practice groups.  Margaret was also a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Committee on Cooperation with the Courts as well as the Family Division’s Rules and Policy Groups.  In those groups and committees, she collaborated with members of the judiciary and other practitioners on rules, policies of the courts and professional conduct matters.

Margaret has authored numerous articles and blog posts on various issues relating to divorce.  She is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars on topics such as handling complex assets in divorce, advanced property division, and postnuptial agreements.  Margaret is also a certified collaborative law attorney and trained mediator.  She is a vocal proponent of mediation and collaborative law in the divorce context.