J. Scott Braden

Scott is celebrating his 42nd year practicing law. Scott has an extensive Guardianship, Conservatorship and estate planning practice. He has represented family members, social workers, and corporate Guardians and Conservators. He has been legal counsel in more than 1000 Guardianship and Conservatorship cases. He supervises the preparation of approximately 300 Personal Well-Being Reports and 50 Annual and Final Accounts per year. Scott’s practice includes Petitions for Emergency Guardianship and Conservatorship, General Guardianship and Conservatorship, invasive medical treatment, electroconvulsive therapy, sale of real estate, modification of Guardianships or Conservatorship’s, appointment of Successor Guardian or Conservator and Annual Account and Final Account Court hearings. He routinely advises Conservators about Conservator Account Auditing Program Audits and Conservator Account Review Program Reviews. Scott’s family law clients range from farmers to business owners, professionals, trades people, and factory workers. He has represented parties in complex divorces throughout southern Minnesota. Scott has worked with clients whose assets range from zero to high net worth divorces over $5,000,000.00. In addition to his extensive litigation experience, Scott has substantial experience working with clients to resolve cases using mediators, parenting time expeditors, parenting time evaluators, and custody evaluators. Involvement in the Faribault community and the local bar is a cornerstone of Scott’s practice. Scott has been involved in numerous professional organizations including the Minnesota State Bar Association, Fifth District Bar Association, and Rice County Bar Association. Scott is a past President, board member, and volunteer attorney for Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (legal aid). For more than a decade, Scott was a member and past chair of the Faribault City Planning Commission. Ethical representation has always been at the center of Scott’s practice. Scott is well-versed in the Rules of Professional Responsibility, having served on the Minnesota Supreme Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Ethics Board, and the Fifth District Bar Association Ethics Committee for six (6) years, reviewing ethics complaints involving area attorneys. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees J. Scott Braden included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Scott was named a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Family Law and Politics in family law for 18 consecutive years. Scott has been named a Top 40 Family Law Super Lawyer by Minnesota Family Law and Politics. He received the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition 2001 Pro Bono Public Award. He received the Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services President’s Pro Bono Service Award 2016. Other Sources of Feedback About J. Scott Braden Included on the 2026Minnesota Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2024 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2023 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2022 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2021 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2020 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2019 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2018 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2017 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2015 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2014 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2013 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2012 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2011 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2010 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2009 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2008 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2007 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2006 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2004 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2003 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2002 Minnesota Super Lawyers list 2001 Minnesota Super Lawyers list

• Attorney

• Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Volunteer Attorney, Past President and Board of Director Member
• Supreme Court ADR Ethics Board, Past Vice Chair
• Divine Mercy Catholic Church, Faribault. Finance Committee
• City of Faribault Planning Commission (Past Chair)
• 5th District Bar Association Ethics Committee, Past Chair

• Minnesota, 1981
• U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1985

• Minnesota State Bar Association
• 5th District Bar Association, Past President
• Rice County Bar Association, Past President