Practical, Personal, & Compassionate.
Providing the highest quality legal solutions throughout Boise, Idaho and the surrounding areas, helping our clients in making the best choices.
Estate Planning
Guardianship
Conservatorship
Trusts
Divorce/Family Law
Probate
Finch & Associates Law Office has joined Gravis Law, PLLC!
Finch & Associates is now better than ever! With the support and resources of Gravis Law, Finch & Associates is a full service family law, elder law, and estate planning law firm. Concentrating on Family Law, Elder Law, Guardianships and Conservatorships, Estate and Trust Administration, Special Needs Trusts and Probate, our firm helps individuals and families plan for life, overcome the legal challenges brought about with family transitions, special needs, aging, incapacity, and death.
We routinely represent clients in the areas of divorce and custody matters, estate planning, creation of wills and trusts, incapacity planning, preparation of advance directives and powers of attorney, elder law, Medicaid planning, guardianship and conservatorship for developmentally disabled and incapacitated persons, probates, estate administration, will contests, probate and trust litigation, and contested guardianship matters.
By actively listening to our clients, we guide our clients through the legal process, whether that is simply creating a plan to ensure that the most important things in their life, everyone they love and everything they owned, are cared for, or representing them in the legal system to protect their property and family members in divorce, custody, guardianship and probate matters.
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Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Appointments available in person, by phone, or videoconferencing.
To schedule an appointment, please email us or call 208-385-0800
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Our Team
Michelle R. Finch
Michelle has been practicing law in Boise, Idaho since 1985. A Montana native, Michelle graduated from the Gonzaga University School of Law, Cum Laude, in 1985. Michelle is licensed to practice in Idaho and Montana.
Michelle is known for her advocacy, compassion and dedication to her clients’ interests and goals. She recognizes that legal issues involving family members is personal and can be emotionally charged and works to resolve the issues at hand outside of the courtroom when possible. In cases where resolution is not possible without the assistance of the Court, Michelle advocates for her clients in contested family law, guardianship, conservatorship, probate and trust cases in Idaho and Montana. For her Montana clients, Michelle can make arrangements for appointments via phone, videoconferencing, or in person, as the situation warrants.
Michelle is a member of the Idaho State Bar Trust, Taxation and Probate Section, the Idaho Supreme Court’s Guardianship and Conservatorship Committee, the Idaho Guardianship and Fiduciary Association, the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Idaho State Bar Family Law Section. She is a former chairperson of the Ada County Board of Community Guardians and a former member of the Canyon County Organization on Aging. She also regularly volunteers for the Idaho Volunteer Lawyer Program in pro bono guardianship matters.
Outside of the office, Michelle can be found trail running, rock climbing, hiking, enjoying the mountains of Western Montana and Paradise Valley/Livingston, Montana, gardening, watching her youngest daughter play high school and club soccer, and enjoying time with her three daughters, her family and friends.
Stacey Olachea
Stacey, the firm’s Paralegal, she was born and raised here in Boise, Idaho and is a graduate of Boise State University with Master’s Degree in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning. Even though Stacey’s background wasn’t founded in law her passion to help others and streamline processes brings a professional quality to our team that allows her to work closely with our clients and the many professionals involved in the cases the firm handles.
When not on the job, Stacey can often be found running or biking on the greenbelt or at the movie theatre, as both she and her husband are movie enthusiasts. Stacey is an active volunteer with her church and strives to grow meaningful relationships through hospitality based activities.
Wilson, PLLC’s Legal Comfort Dog
My name is Wilson and I work at the law office of Finch & Associates Law Office, PLLC as a trained service dog. I love meeting new people – kids or adults!
~ Client