Partner Cathy Hunt represents business owners going through divorce and clients with complex financial estates. Before joining Gailor Hunt Davis Taylor & Gibbs, PLLC in 2001, Cathy practiced corporate law with Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice in Raleigh and McGuire, Woods, Battle and Booth in Northern Virginia. Most of Cathy’s time was devoted to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Cathy’s former corporate law experience including the formation of business entities and subsequent representation on corporate matters, provides her with the expertise necessary to understanding complex equitable distribution cases, especially those involving business valuation issues. Cathy’s practice also includes in-depth financial analysis in alimony and child support cases. She was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., former Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Cathy represents mothers and fathers with complex custody cases. She also prosecutes and defends claims for Alienation of Affection and Criminal Conversation.
Cathy received her J.D. degree from the University of Memphis where she was a member of the Law Review. Cathy received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, graduating first in her class. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Cathy has been recognized by her peers as a member of North Carolina’s Legal Elite in Family Law as published in Business North Carolina Magazine
She has also been named as one of North Carolina’s Top Lawyers in the area of Family Law by Business Leader magazine.