SENION ATTORNEY
DIRECTOR, FAMILY LAW PRACTICE GROUP

As a seasoned, experienced, practitioner, Attorney Markell understands how to help clients navigate stressful periods in their lives. Before making the transition into the full time practice of law, Attorney Markell, built a successful national retail business from the ground up.   This enables Attorney Markell to integrate practical and the legal challenges that clients may face in domestic relations cases, to achieve cost effective, practical solutions to problems, designed to achieve positive results for clients. 

 

CRIMINAL LAW:
Clients facing criminal matters are confronted with special challenges.  As a former member of the Criminal Justice Panels of the United States District Court of New Hampshire as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Attorney Markell brings knowledge, legal expertise, and persuasive advocacy for each client he represents to achieve the best outcomes for clients. 
 

LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY: 

Attorney Markell  believes  that knowing  why the law is written   is as it is, can help get positive results for clients.  Since  2017, Attorney  Markell   has taken an active role in  drafting and proposing various aspects of  family law legislation,  dealing with alimony reform, pre-marital agreements,  child support,   restraining orders,  constitutional rights in family law  as well as the  treatment of animals in divorce, expanded and revised fault grounds in divorce. 

With appearances on front of  the  Child and Family Law Committee, in New Hampshire House of Representatives as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee. New Hampshire.  New Hampshire  became the first state in New England recognize animal wellbeing in divorce;  New Hampshire law now recognizes  drug abuse as well as alcohol abuse as grounds for divorce, and the law has been clarified and updated to be sure that same sex couples have  the capacity to enter into pre-marital  agreements. 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

New Hampshire Bar News 
Contempt Issues in Family Law, (2023)
How Family Law Impacts the First Amendment (2022)
New Hampshire Divorce Law: Sex, Drugs, and Divorce (2020)
Child Support Clouds Have a Silva Lining (2019)
Alimony Double Think (2018)
Animal Well Being in Divorce, New Hampshire Leapfrogs New England (2019)
A Tale of Two Alimonies (2017)

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PRACTICE BOOKS:
Co- editor, Employment Severance Answer Book 2000 Supplement, Panel Publishers, Div. Aspen Publishers. 
Co-Editor, Employment Severance Answer Book, 1999 Supplement, Panel Publishers, Div. Aspen Publishing 

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NEWSPAPER:

Manchester Union Leader Newspaper, Alimony Bills Heads to Governor (2018).
 

Areas of Practice:
•    Family Law
•    Civil Litigation

•    Criminal Law and Criminal Appeals 

Bar Admissions:
•    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1998
•    New Hampshire Supreme Court, 1998
•    United States District Courts, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1998
•    United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2001

Education:

Massachusetts School of Law, J.D., 1998

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