Deborah Noonan, JD is an experienced family law attorney who for the past 20 years has limited her practice to divorce mediation and Collaborative Divorce. After spending a number of years litigating divorces, and witnessing firsthand the harm contentious divorces cause families, especially children, Deborah decided to focus her family law practice on alternative methods of dispute resolution. As a mediator and collaborative attorney, Deborah works with clients to assist them in working out a settlement agreement in a cooperative and mindful problem solving process that places great emphasis on reducing conflict, keeping children the focus, and empowering the parties to control the outcome of their divorce. Deborah helps clients create quality solutions to meet their and their family’s individualized needs, bringing outside professionals, such as therapists and divorce financial specialists, into the process to promote a more holistic result. Deborah has had extensive mediation and Collaborative Divorce training and has presented on both topics at seminars and conferences.
As an extension of Deborah’s commitment to conflict resolution, she serves as a Special Master for Superior Court family matters, is a current board member and former co-president of the Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce; an advanced practitioner member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators; member of the Collaborative Divorce Professionals of Fairfield County; member of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. and acts as co-chair of Collaborative Divorce Connecticut. Deborah is also a member of the Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Deborah has been named as a “Connecticut Super Lawyer” in the annual Connecticut Super Lawyer Magazine, and as a “Top Lawyer in Fairfield County” in Greenwich Magazine.
Deborah holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University (magna cum laude) and earned her Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law (cum laude).