Tracey Hower

900 E. Roosevelt Road
Lombard, IL 60148
Phone: 630.932.9100
Fax: 630.932.9868

Tracey Hower is an associate attorney with the Mevorah Law Offices who brings her extensive and seasoned business background to her Family Law practice.  Having been an Operations Manager for a fortune 500 company, among others, Tracey utilizes her business acumen to handle complex family law matters including valuation and division of corporate or other business assets. Tracey has a proven track record in contested divorce, custody, visitation, child support, paternity, and post decree cases in DuPage and Kane Counties.

At the Mevorah Law Offices, Tracey is compassionate about her clients’ needs and advocates for her clients vigorously both in the courtroom and with opposing counsel during negotiations, never losing sight of what is important to her clients.  Tracey takes the time to find out what is important to her clients, gets a perspective of the entire case, and uses her negotiation and litigation experiences to creatively and successfully advocate for her clients.

Some of Tracey’s success stories include:

• Successfully returning custody of a 5 year old child.  Tracey’s client had her daughter taken by the client’s heroin addicted ex-boyfriend.  Tracey explained the client’s rights to her and that the client did not have to settle for only visitation.  Tracey immediately petitioned the court for custody in an emergency motion. At the first court date, without allowing the ex-boyfriend to delay the matter for months, Tracey used her litigation skills to prove that the child was in imminent danger due to the respondent being a heroin addict. Tracey implored the court to demand the respondent be tested for drugs that day. Convinced, the judge ordered a drug test and immediately transferred custody to the mother when the respondent’s drug test came back positive.
• Successfully prevented man from losing driver’s license.  Tracey defended a man who depended upon his driver’s license to obtain treatment for HIV.  The driver’s license was being taken away for the alleged non payment of child support.  Tracey artfully and diligently negotiated with the Secretary of State’s Office.  Because of Tracey’s persistence and thoroughness, she was able to convince the administration that the client had paid the child support and in the alternative because of the client’s medical condition and dependence on his license to get the medical treatment that he needed, that it would be an injustice to revoke his license. The client kept his license.

Prior to joining Steven H. Mevorah & Associates, Tracey advocated for low income clients at Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. At Prairie State, Tracey obtained Emergency and Plenary Orders of Protection for abused women, men and children; divorce judgments; custody, visitation, and support orders. In particularly violent cases of domestic abuse, when appropriate, Tracey coordinated her clients’ cooperation with the State’s Attorney’s office to prosecute the abusers. Similarly, Tracey would make sure her clients who were victims of domestic abuse were educated with regard to the physical, financial, and psychological services that were available to her clients within their local communities.

In addition to concentrating in Family Law matters, Tracey is also licensed by the Federal Bar and practices Bankruptcy Law.

Bar Admissions:

• State of Illinois Bar, 2009
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2010

Associations:

• DuPage County Bar Association
• Kane County Bar Association
• Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
• Illinois State Bar Association

Education:

• B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University, Cum Laude
  • National Honor Society for Business Students
• J.D. Northern Illinois University, Cum Laude
  • Moot Court
  • Dean’s list