Concord Divorce & Family Law Attorney

Divorce and parenting matters for Concord residents go to the 6th Circuit Court — Family Division — Concord, at 32 Clinton Street. Its jurisdiction covers the City of Concord along with Loudon, Canterbury, Dunbarton, Bow, Hopkinton, Pittsfield, Chichester, and Epsom.

Merrimack County also has Family Division locations in Franklin and Hooksett. If you live in Hooksett, your case is generally heard there rather than in Concord, even though Concord is the county seat. Confirming the right division before filing is worth the two minutes — a case started in the wrong place has to be transferred, and that delay is costly when temporary orders are pending.

Concord is about twenty miles up I-93 from Attorney Gilman's Manchester office. New Hampshire attorneys are licensed statewide and every Circuit Court Family Division applies the same statutes, so the relevant question is not where the firm sits but how often it does this work.

As the state capital, Concord has an unusually high concentration of state employees, teachers, and public-sector retirees. That makes the retirement account, rather than the house, the largest marital asset in a substantial share of local divorces.

Public pensions are marital property and divisible like other retirement assets, but they are valued and divided through different mechanisms than a private 401(k), and the orders required to split them have their own requirements. Getting that paperwork wrong is a problem that surfaces years later, at retirement, when it is far harder to fix.

If a pension is part of your marriage, bring the most recent benefits statement to the first meeting. It usually tells us more about how the case will resolve than anything else in the file.