Colin A. Drayton

Colin represents those going through divorce. He is well-versed in dealing with financial issues such as property division, child support, maintenance, and children’s issues. Additionally, he has drafted and negotiated over 100 prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements, and has several published works on this topic. Colin also has experience with family-law appellate cases, including drafting briefs to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This included serving as co-counsel in a successful appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Siech v. Schwab (Wisconsin Supreme Court, published opinion June 22, 2021). He publishes and presents on family law issues, and on prenuptial agreements. This includes multiple articles in the Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, the American Journal of Family Law, and a co-authored chapter on Wisconsin Prenuptial Agreement Law that was published by Wolters Kluwer. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin Family Law Section, the Leander J. Foley Society of Family Lawyers, the Association of Family Conciliation Courts, and the Waukesha Bar Association. He also devoted time as part of a task force that revised the Milwaukee County family court rules. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Colin A. Drayton included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Rising Star by Wisconsin Super Lawyers, as published in Milwaukee Magazine, 2020-2023 Top 10 Under 40 for excellence in field of family law by the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys, 2022 Other Sources of Feedback About Colin A. Drayton Included on the 2025Wisconsin Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2023 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2022 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2021 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list 2020 Wisconsin Super Lawyers list

• Contributor to case studies, “Divorce Wisconsin Style: Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers,” Judges Panel, February 2020, February 2019, March/April 2021.
• Co-Presenter, Between Shirking and Earning Capacity: An Analysis of Caselaw, Wisconsin Judicial College, January 2018

• Buck
• Rust
• Danielson
• Quartana v. Quartana, Appeal No. 20-AP-1168 (Court of Appeals 2021)
• Siech v. Schwab (Wisconsin Supreme Court, published opinion June 22, 2021)
• Bernhard v. Bernhard, Appeal No. 20-AP-194 (Court of Appeals, December 3, 2020)
• Siech v. Schwab, 2020 WI App. 40, Appeal No. 19-AP-1200 (Court of Appeals, May 5, 2020)
• Kearns v. Kearns, 2017 WI 83 (Wisconsin Supreme Court Petition for Review)
• Kearns v. Kearns, Appeal No. 16-AP-1407 (Court of Appeals, March 22, 2017)

• State Bar of Wisconsin Family Law Section (Member)
• Leander J. Foley Society of Family Lawyers, Member
• Association of Family Conciliation Courts, Member (Wisconsin Chapter, Member)
• Waukesha Bar Association (Member)
• Milwaukee Bar Association (past member)