Experience and Expertise

I have 24 years of experience in estate planning and administration, including:

• preparing wills and trusts to transfer assets to family members, friends and charities
• advising on strategies for reducing taxes while living and upon and after death
• incorporating, organizing and reorganizing closely-held corporations, including medicine professional corporations and dentistry professional corporations
• assisting executors with probating wills and administering estates
• preparing estate, trust and guardianship accounts
• advising trustees, guardians and attorneys in carrying out their fiduciary obligations
• helping clients to prepare for the possibility of their own mental incapacity by way of trusts and powers of attorney for property and personal care
• protecting mentally incapable family members by way of Henson trusts or guardianship applications

My legal experience also equips me to act in a more direct and personal role as executor, trustee or attorney for property where there is no suitable family member or friend to do so, or where a client wishes to appoint an independent professional executor to deal with complex assets or to manage difficult relationships among the beneficiaries.