Mark E. Sullivan

Mark E. Sullivan is the principal of Law Offices of Mark E. Sullivan, P.A., in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He has limited his trial practice to family law since 1981 and has been certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a Family Law Specialist since 1989.

He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Town & Country Magazine, Law Weekly USA and The Raleigh News & Observer, and has had articles published in the American Journal of Family Law, Family Law Quarterly, Family Advocate, The Military Law Review, the Army Lawyer, Family Advocate, and The Practical Lawyer.  

Mr. Sullivan is the editor of "Family Law Practice and Procedure Manual" (NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, 2000), and he has written numerous articles on trial advocacy, negotiating techniques, the use of computers,  and the practice of family law.  He is a frequent speaker at military and family law programs and is an annual lecturer on family law at the Army JAG School and the Naval Justice School.  

Mr. Sullivan is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Family Law Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association and the American Bar Association, the Judge Advocates Association, and the Reserve Officers Association.  In September, 2000, he was certified by the AAML as a family law arbitrator, and he is the past-president of the North Carolina Chapter of the AAML.  He is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. 

Mr. Sullivan's book, The Military Divorce Handbook, was published in May 2006 by the American Bar Association.
 

G BRENTLEY TANNER

Brent Tanner was admitted to the practice of law in North Carolina in 2007 and has focused his practice on family law and real estate.  He joined Law Offices of Mark E. Sullivan, P.A. in 2008.  Brent currently represents clients in all aspects of family law including pre-marital agreements, post-marital agreements, custody and visitation, support matters, property division, and litigation. Brent previously practiced family law in Cumberland County, where he focused on aspects of family law involving servicemembers and spouses. 

Brent received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004.  In 2007, he received his Juris Doctorate from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University.

Brent is a member of the Tenth Judicial District Bar, the Wake County Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the NCBA Family Law Section. He has published articles in the areas of federal pension division and property division by North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, and in the Member’s Online Resource Center of the American Bar Association Family Law Section.

Brent represents clients in numerous counties in North Carolina.  He has represented clients in Wake, Durham, Chatham, Lee, Alamance, Harnett, Moore, Wayne, Johnston, Cumberland, Transylvania, Nash, Catawba, Currituck, Hoke, and Robeson Counties.