Co-President Brett R. Turner

B.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1981. J.D., University of North Carolina Law School, 1984.  Member, North Carolina Bar.

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In 2015, the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys selected Brett as one of the top 10 Family Law Attorneys in Eastern Virginia.  Brett has spoken at numerous CLE seminars, including Virginia CLE’s 33d Annual Family Law Seminar in October, 2014, on Attacking and Defending Virginia Marital Agreements.

Brett is the author of the leading nationwide treatise on equitable distribution, Equitable Distribution of Property  (4th ed. 2019), and is a nationally known expert in the law of equitable distribution.  He is also coauthor (with Laura W. Morgan) of a treatise on antenuptial and separation agreements, Attacking and Defending Marital Agreements (ABA Family Law Section 2d ed. 2012).  In addition to serving as editor of Divorce Litigation and Equitable Distribution Journal, Brett has written for the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Family Advocate, the Virginia Lawyer, and the Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.  He has led seminars on a variety of family law issues for both attorneys and judges and has served on the Legislative Subcommittee of the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar. 

Brett has served in his present position since 1985 and has completed or supervised over 4,000 family law research projects.  Primary areas of expertise include equitable distribution, definition of marital property, definition of separate property, valuation of marital property, division of marital property, classification and division of retirement benefits, classification and valuation of professional practices, validity of marital agreements, construction of marital agreements, amount of alimony, duration of alimony, definition of income for child support, child support, child custody jurisdiction, child custody on the merits, and admissibility of e-mails and other material taken off computers.

Brett joined NLRG's Management Committee in 2015, and he now serves as NLRG's Co-President.

Brett is also an enthusiastic amateur photographer.  See http://bturner.zenfolio.com.

See a sample of Brett's work.