Deb is a partner at the law firm Guston & Guston, in Glen Rock, New Jersey, where she represents a broad spectrum of clients in family law matters, adoptions, estate planning and other matters. Deb has represented over 600 lesbian and gay couples and individuals in primary and second parent adoptions over the last 24 years and represented the first couples in Morris, Ocean and Passaic Counties to be granted second parent adoptions, all before the Appellate Division’s landmark case approving such practice.
Deb is a past president of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Greater New York; a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the American Academy of Reproductive Technology Attorneys; and a trustee and executive committee member of the ACLU-NJ. Deb is a member of the National LGBT Bar Association and an invited member of its LGBT Family Law Institute, a vetted group of family lawyers from around the country with significant experience in LGBT family law matters. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Committee and former Chair of the NJSBA LGBT Rights Section.
Deb graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, holds a master’s degree from Emerson College and received her law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.