Law Firm of Debra J. Braselton, P.C. Information

Debra J. Braselton is an experienced family law attorney with a unique background and a career built around families. Debra's first career was as a certified nurse-midwife at a large teaching hospital in Chicago. During her career as a nurse-midwife, Debra gained a wealth of knowledge and experience with families, particularly with families in crisis. Debra's clients benefit from her experience and enjoy her unique sensitivity to the personal nature of their family law matters. Debra handles cases involving divorce, custody, visitation, domestic violence, guardianship and adoption matters. She is adept at counseling her clients as to the proper course of action and regularly handles trials, pretrial conferences, evidentiary hearings and contested motions in her cases. An advocate of alternative dispute resolution in family law matters, Debra was among the first attorneys in Illinois to receive training in Collaborative Law in 2001 and has successfully completed hundreds of Collaborative cases since then. Debra achieves an out of court settlement in over 90% of her litigated divorce cases, a success rate she attributes to meticulous case preparation, excellent client communication and a willingness to aggressively try the case when settlement options have been exhausted. The Law Firm of Debra J. Braselton, PC We practice family law, Exclusively and with Excellence