Morgan
Pell

I came to family law from tax. I started my career at a national accounting firm working on partnership and executive compensation matters, and I went to law school knowing that what I wanted to do was the legal half of the work I had been doing — translate complex financial structures into outcomes that hold up.

Family law is where that translation matters most. Most divorces involve assets — retirement accounts, real estate, business interests, equity compensation. Most divorce attorneys are not trained to value, classify, or structure them, and most divorces leave money on the table because of it. My practice is built around closing that gap.

I represent both partners — the one with the complex compensation package and the one who married into it. The questions are the same: what is here, how was it acquired, what is it worth, how does it move, and what are the tax consequences. The answers determine the result.

Beyond high-net-worth divorce, I handle prenuptial and postnuptial agreements (with attention to business and equity-compensation issues), and I represent both petitioners and respondents in 50B Domestic Violence Protective Order proceedings. Custody and DV work is the most urgent and most consequential we do; it is also where the rules and the people are at their most charged.

I am admitted in North Carolina (2017) and hold an LL.M. in Taxation from NYU. I lecture at the NC Bar Association on equitable distribution, executive compensation, and prenuptial agreements. I live in Charlotte with my husband and our dog Goose.