Debora E. May, CPA, CFP®

Debora May is a Senior Advisor at CBM - Councilor Buchanan & Mitchell, P.C. as part of the firm’s divorce, wealth management ( MBI) and financial planning team. She has more than 30 years of experience in public accounting and was a co-founder of May & Barnhard, P.C., a Bethesda, Maryland-based tax and financial consulting firm that merged into CBM in November 2017.

Ms. May has significant experience in tax, financial planning for individuals and closely held businesses, collaborative divorce, divorce litigation support and negotiation for financial settlements in divorce. She has provided expert testimony for attorneys in divorce and real estate matters, and participated in mediations for divorce. She has also served as a financial neutral in more than 250 collaborative divorce cases. In addition, she is actively involved with individual tax work and has also represented clients in IRS and state audit matters.

Ms. May is a recognized, industry-wide expert in the divorce planning arena who has helped negotiate settlements in hundreds of cases. She has also been voted by her peers as one of the top financial planning experts in the metropolitan Washington, DC area in the only seven polls of that nature sponsored by Washingtonian Magazine.

Ms. May is a past president of the Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals of Maryland, and is a member of the Montgomery County Divorce Roundtable and various other collaborative divorce groups.

Professional Qualifications and Education

• B.S. Accounting & Finance – University of Maryland

Professional Associations and Activities

• Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals of Maryland, Past President
• Montgomery County Divorce Roundtable, Board Member
• Other collaborative divorce groups

Awards & Recognition

• “Top Financial Planning Experts” – Washingtonian Magazine, Awarded 7 Times