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Raleigh Divorce Law Firm
FINDING THE RIGHT SOLUTION
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Between college and law school, Raleigh divorce lawyer Heather Williams Forshey worked in family services for Head Start in Sanford, NC. “ e experience de nitely in uenced my decision to go into family law,” said Forshey.
Forshey explained that she worked in family services at a center with forty kids. While the main focus of her job was to work with families to develop goal plans, the most rewarding part for her was the op- portunity to spend time with children in the classrooms. For Forshey, it inspired a belief “that we have a duty to try to make sure that every child has an opportunity to have an education and an opportunity to be a part of a family that loves them.”
Heather Williams Forshey was born in Boone and was raised in Sanford. She graduated from Elon University with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and earned her Juris Doctor at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Forshey launched Raleigh Divorce Law Firm in 2010 a er practic- ing family law with several other rms. Her rm has continued to grow since then, and the four-lawyer rm currently handles divorce, adoption, child custody and visitation, child support, spousal support and property division as well as family law mediation services and par- ent coordinator services.
She is a board-certi ed family law specialist, certi ed as a family nancial mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Com- mission and is also a certi ed parenting coordinator.
WORKING WITH FAMILIES
“I really enjoy the personal side of working with families,” said For- shey. “And I de nitely feel like my skill set involves being able to man- age people in all di erent types of life situations. For me, it’s about nding the right solution for each client in that particular family and
HEATHER WILLIAMS FORSHEY
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