Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Margaretha Gravett practices in all areas of family and matrimonial law, residential real estate transactions, and estate planning, wills and trusts.

Margaretha is the consummate family law attorney. She is well-known for the high level of professionalism, knowledge, skill, and integrity with which she not only leads her clients through their marital difficulties, but also assists them with their real estate and estate planning needs after divorce or separation.

Margaretha considers it her paramount responsibility to safeguard her clients' interests and obtain their goals. This involves carefully listening to the client and helping the client distinguish the essential issues from issues of fleeting importance. By creating solid goals and a strategy to achieve them, Margaretha helps her clients start their lives anew.

Margaretha is a skilled negotiator. She always seeks, in the first instance, to achieve amicable, non-litigated resolutions to her clients' family law disputes. She is known for her ability to find creative and advantageous solutions to seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and to placate even the most difficult spouses and their attorneys. She is also a trained divorce mediator and collaborative attorney who can help couples work together to resolve their differences effectively and efficiently.

When reason does not prevail, Margaretha aggressively litigates her clients' cases in court. She has extensive trial experience in high-conflict custody and parenting disputes, as well as complex equitable distribution, business valuation, child support, and spousal maintenance (alimony) issues.

Areas of Practice

• Family Law
• Divorce
• Child Support
• Custody & Visitation
• Litigation & Appeals
• Estate Planning
• Trusts
• Residential Real Estate Transactions
• Elder Law

West Practice Categories

Estate Planning, Family Law, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Divorce, Elder Law, Litigation & Appeals, Trusts, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 2001
• South Africa, 1997

Certification/Specialties

• Divorce Mediation, Association for Conflict Resolution
• Collaborative Law, The New York State Unified Court System

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member)
• New York Bar Association (Member)
• Westchester County Bar Association (Member)
• National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1998
• American Bar Association's Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, 2002

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 2000
  LL.M.
• University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, Pretoria, South Africa, 1996
  LL.B.
  Honors: cum laude
• University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 1994
  B.L.C.
  Honors: cum laude

Address

100 South Bedford Road
Suite 340
Mount Kisco, NY 10549-3444

Phones

(914) 358-0036

Faxes

(914) 358-0037

Emails

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Websites

http://www.gravettdivorce.com