Chapel Hill, NC – Chapel Hill Attorney D. Melissa Averett, a Certified NC Family Law Specialist and founder of Averett Family Law, has been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for her practice in Family Law.

“I am passionate about practicing family law and am honored to be selected by my peers for this recognition,” says Averett. “I enjoy sharing my knowledge and representing clients who arrive weighed down with divorce or child custody issues. Watching them grow through the process is rewarding.” In addition to representing clients, Averett also speaks on family law and domestic violence topics in North Carolina and internationally.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 184,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 25.8 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.

For the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 23 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 80,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 31st edition.

About Averett Family Law

Averett Family Law (www.averettfamilylaw.com) is a comprehensive family law firm founded by Melissa Averett in 1998. The firm represents clients in cases involving separation, divorce, child custody, child support, alimony and post separation support, protective orders and related family law issues, as well as estate planning and probate law. Averett is a Certified Family Law Specialist in NC. The firm’s attorneys serve family law clients in Chatham and Orange Counties and estate planning/probate clients in Orange, Chatham, Durham and Lee counties in North Carolina. The firm may be reached at (919) 903-9442 or melissa@averettlaw.com.

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