Family law attorney Corrin Fulton stands in the library of Geahiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon, PLLC, Friday, March 4, 2016.About Corrin Fulton
Age: 34 Family law attorney at Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon Personal: Married, three boys
Everyone's heard of prenuptial agreements.
Chattanooga attorney Corrin Fulton drafts prenups and - less commonly - postnuptial agreements.
"You have much more leverage before marriage," she said.
Fulton specializes in family law matters - divorce, post-divorce and adoption proceedings - for Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon, a firm in downtown Chattanooga that employs 14 attorneys.
"Family law practice is highly stressful. It's highly emotional," Fulton said. "You can't help but be drawn into it because you're dealing with peoples' lives."
She laughs and adds, "The other attorneys who work with me, they don't want anything to do with my practice."
Reared in Cleveland, Tenn., Fulton was the first in her family to get a college degree. She graduated from Lee University in 2005 with a major in English and a minor in Bible philosophy.
Her mother planted the seed in Fulton's mind to pursue a career in law at a young age.
"I guess because I would argue with her all the time," Fulton said. As far back as Fulton can remember, her mother would tell her, "You're going to grow up and be a lawyer."
Fulton went to the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, a town of about 1,000 people.
"It is just gorgeous," Fulton said of Grundy, adding that she felt safe there with her son Alexzander Sage, now 14. "I was a single parent, and I was kind of terrified of living in a big city."
Although Grundy is about five hours away from Chattanooga, Fulton's then-boyfriend, now-husband Scott Allen Fulton kept courting her.
The couple met when she was server at Bald Headed Bistro, a high-end restaurant in Cleveland and he worked for Check Into Cash's corporate headquarters, which is next door. Both businesses are owned by Cleveland entrepreneur Allan Jones.
They married while she was in her second year of law school, and she got pregnant with their son, Liam Allen, who's now 6, in her third year of law school.
"We were married one-and-a-half years before we ever lived together," Fulton said, because she had to finish law school, and he lived here and worked for Check Into Cash.
They've since had a third son, Samuel Joseph, age 1. Scott Allen Fulton decided to be a stay-at-home dad, now, while she works as a lawyer.
The family enjoys tent camping, and Corrin is on the board of Marty's Center, a nonprofit, private preschool on Brainerd Road for children with hearing impairments. Corrin's second son is about 40 percent deaf in both ears.
Fulton is president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Chattanooga Bar Association.
"I have nothing but great things to say about her," said outgoing president Jeffery Maddux. "She is someone who is very well-regarded. She's a great attorney. There's a lot of great attorneys in town, but she is also a very good person."