Misty Ralston

Misty Ralston's practice focuses on helping families enhance their lives today and secure their futures tomorrow. Just as she did previously as a tax professional, Misty thrives in guiding her clients through the often confusing and intimidating maze of financial and legal decisions to create estate plans that protect her client's family and loved ones, and ensure those loved ones know how important they were and how much Misty's clients thought of them. Misty's legal expertise includes family protection, wealth preservation, values-based planning, as wel as planning strategies for unmarried couples, divorced individuals, and young adults just striking out on their own.

Misty graduated from Rowan long before it became the university it is today. After college, she worked for a number of companies including Electric Mobility, Deluxe Corporation, and H&R Block. Finally, twenty years after graduating from Rowan, Misty fulfilled her dream of becoming an attorney and graduated from Rutgers Law School in Camden, NJ. After graduation, Misty served as a law clerk for the Honorable Sandra Lopez in Salem County's family division. She then accepted a position with the Administrative Office of the Courts of the New Jersey Judiciary and served as a Child Support Hearing Officer where she presided over hearings to establish paternity and child support, as well as as hearings to modify and enforce current child support orders. Eventually, Misty's position transitioned to working in Salem, Cumberland, and Gloucester counties and in addition to her work in child support, Misty served as a Domestic Violence Hearing Officer where she heard applications for temporary restraining orders. Her position also included acting as a family mediator to help families come to agreements regarding custody and parenting time issues. Misty's decision to leave the New Jersey Judiciary and open her own practice was not an easy decision. However, the opportunity to serve clients in an open and candid way and to guide them in creating an estate plan to protect themselves and their loved ones won out. She prides herself in ensuring her clients walk away with an individualized plan that speaks to their values, dreams, and desires for their loved ones and to ensure those they care about have one less thing to worry about when the time comes. Misty's background in taxes and family law allow her to understand the family dynamics and the fear of the unknown many of her clients experience when they walk in the door for their Family Wealth Planning Session.

Along those same principles and beliefs, Misty also offers civil and family mediation sessions to help her clients come to a mutual agreement, outside of court, with speed, efficiency, and integrity. Having worked in the court system, Misty knows and understands the backlog and slow process that it sometimes takes for an issue that may be able to be resolved, if the two parties had someone to sit down and help them come to an agreement that is best for them and their family, sooner, rather than later. When time is of the essence, Misty is there to help the two parties move forward rather than waiting in limbo for a resolution that may not even be necessary by the time it gets to court. On a personal note, Misty has two sisters, three nieces and one nephew, five great-nephews and two great nieces. She enjoys spending time with them, traveling, and relaxing with her eskipoo - Snow White.

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