Delaware Legal and Financial

If you’re looking for fair representation, Vivian Houghton should be at the top of your list. She deals with Bankruptcy, Real Estate and Wills/Trust and is looking to grow in those areas. She has 32 years of experience.

Ms. Houghton was honored as a top lawyer in 2001 and 2010 by Delaware Today Magazine. She was also mentioned in the 2012 Top Lawyer edition.

Always caring about her potential clients, Ms. Houghton gives free consultations.
An early believer in women’s rights, Houghton led NOW’s state-wide fight against the cancellation of Delaware's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and for Pay Equity for women. In the 1980s and 1990s, Houghton combined her feminist interest in issues like reproductive rights and comparable worth with other issues of concern to her: racial inequality, industrial pollution, and the economic plight of working class people and the low income.

Ms. Houghton has run her own Wilmington law practice since 1981. During this time she also worked as a Public Defender for eight years, representing both juveniles and adults. Regarding voting rights, she has filed and won three suits pertaining to unfair election practices against the Delaware Election Commission.

Before breaking with the Democratic Party in the early 1990s, Houghton managed ten successful Democratic Party campaigns for reformers who ran for public office. In 2000, Houghton was elected to the Delaware Green Party’s State Coordinating Committee.

Ms. Houghton graduated from the University of Delaware in 1976. She attended Widner Law School. She is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) and the National Association of Consumer Attorneys (NACA). Within the NACBA organization she is the Delaware State Chair and she is part of their advocacy program. She is a member of both the Delaware and Maryland Bars. Additionally, she is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.