$ 295-450 per hour
PRO
also known as Deb Guston
Virtual Consultation Available
I have spent my professional career building a general practice to meet the needs of all of New Jersey's families. Our office is kid-friendly and pet-friendly. Our office provides an atmosphere of casual, professional assistance in a wide range of practice areas. We focus on Family Formation through Adoption and Assisted Reproduction/Surrogacy and Family Protection through Guardianships for Special Needs Kids and the Elderly; Estate Planning; Estate Administration/Probate and other related areas like Name Changes. Our associate Cathryn M. Calia is also a veterinarian and has started an animal law practice here at GUSTON LAW PC.
I am a Past President of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, an international organization of highly credentialed attorneys working in the family formation space and a Past President and current Trustee of the ACLU-NJ.
I am active in the New Jersey State Bar Association where I work with the Family Law Section's Executive Committee to help advocate for new laws that advance family building through adoption, assisted reproduction and surrogacy. I am co-author of NJ's Gestational Carrier Agreement Act and have worked to improve access to fertility care through expanded insurance coverage.
I am also a long time advocate and activist for NJ's LGBTQ+ community and am a co-author of NJ's marriage equality statute and our Confirmatory Adoption law.
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Practice Areas
38 years | 1,000 cases
38 years
38 years
38 years | 100 cases
$ 295-450 per hour
2 %
Always
State: District of Columbia
Acquired: 1991
No misconduct found
State: New Jersey
Acquired: 1988
No misconduct found
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Posted by Lisa | October 06, 2016 | Hired Attorney | Lawsuits & Disputes
Same Sex Disputes
Deb Guston is brilliant. She resolved a 4 year dispute within a matter of months. Her legal solutuons were creative, effective and resolved as economically as possible. I had fired my previous attorney who did nothing after 2 years. I highly reccomend Deb Guston and her staff.
"I highly endorse Deb as a leader in the field of adoption law. Her compassion, knowledge, and professionalism are outstanding, and her skill as a litigator is superb. Robin Fleischner Attorney at Law www.adoptsurrogatelaw.com"
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2024
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2023
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
Distinguished Service Award - Legislative Advocacy, New Jersey State Bar Association
2017
Distinguished Service Award - Peer Education, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2013
Lifetime Achievement Award, LGBT Section, NJ State Bar Association
2013
E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Achievement in LGBT Law, OUTLaw - Cardozo School of Law
2012
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2010
Amicus Curiae Award, New Jersey State Bar Association
2006
Service Award, Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater NY
1999 - Present
Managing Partner, Guston & Guston, L.L.P.
1988 - 1998
Associate, Law Offices of Herbert M. Guston
2018 - Present
Bergen County LGBTQ Advisory CommitteeChair
2011 - Present
Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction AttorneysFellow
2010 - Present
NJ Academy of Adoption Attorneys (New Jersey chapter)Fellow
2010 - Present
Women Lawyers in BergenMember
2007 - Present
LGBT Family Law InstituteExecutive Committee
2005 - Present
American Society of Association ExecutivesMember
1988 - Present
Bergen County Bar AssociationMember
1988 - Present
New Jersey State Bar AssociationMember
1988 - Present
American Bar AssociationMember
1987 - Present
LGBT Bar AssociationMember
1985 - Present
Lesbian & Gay Bar Association of Greater New YorkMember
Member
Member
Member
Success! NJ Supreme Court orders State to provide equal rights to committed same-sex couples
WON
No jail time permitted, Court ruled for client defendant
1988
JD - Juris Doctor
1984
MA - Masters
1981
BA - Bachelor of Arts
2012
LGBT Tax Issues
2012
Surrogacy
2012
Trying a Custody Case
2012
Adoption Law
2009
Representing the Transgendered Client
2009
Family Law - Parenting and Adoption
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