April 2025 | Evan Williams
The Attorney: Heather Brooke Quick
The Niche: Women
Heather Brooke Quick grew up in Jacksonville among a family of lawyers including her grandfather, who became a judge, and her uncle, from whom she learned family law. After graduating from law school at Stetson University, Quick felt she was suited for criminal law. She started at the prosecutor’s office — “you just make zero money,” she recalls — and decided moving to criminal defense would be a natural transition.
“It wasn’t really aligning with my values or things that I wanted to do,” Quick says. “And at the same time, I was learning family law. I worked for my uncle, and he had a general practice where he did kind of a little bit of everything. So, he taught me that.”
After she had her own children and a trove of experience under her belt, Quick leaned into divorce cases. She was especially drawn to the experiences of women who felt powerless or feared husbands who tended to control the couple’s finances.
“I felt like that was who I could really help,” Quick says. “And I had more of a heart to help them, just based on my experiences with my parents’ divorces. I felt like I knew a lot about people, and I understood the dynamics. It seemed as though I was really making a difference in their lives, right? Getting them through this court system (and) helping these people achieve things they can’t do for themselves.”
Quick opened her own family law office in 2010 and today serves women exclusively, as the founder and owner of Florida Women’s Law Group. Its tagline: “Divorce for Women, By Women.” It has grown to eight attorneys and about 40 employees in all, Quick says. She also has a podcast called Women Winning Divorce and has authored several books on divorce.
Quick estimates that less than half of her firm’s clients end up going to trial and emphasizes that “it is in everyone’s best interest if you can come to a fair agreement that saves time and money.”
She’s no stranger to the courtroom, though. Quick recalled one client who typified the cases that drew her to family law. She was a stay-at-home mom who felt intimidated going in to divorce proceedings with her husband, a business executive. After he flatly refused to pay alimony, Quick’s client was ready to walk away, but the case went to trial. In the end, her client walked away with permanent alimony payments and half the couple’s assets.
“She was ready to give up and walk away from alimony before the trial, but I was like, ‘really stick in there,’” Quick says. “‘You’re going to walk away too soon.’ And that was a big victory for her.”
Men, Women and Pre-nups
- Florida has the 10th-highest divorce rate for women, with 8.1 divorces per 1,000 married women.
- The state ranks 15th among states with the highest divorce rates for men, with 6.9 divorces per 1,000 married men.
- Florida ranks 16th among states with the highest interest in pre-nups, with 70.23 average monthly searches per 100,000 residents.
Source: Sarieh Law Offices, Orange County, Calif.