Sarah Messersmith
Attorney at Kaufman & Canoles and Commissioner of Accounts
- Role
- Attorney at Kaufman & Canoles
- Location
- Hampton, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Attorney
Sep 2005 — Present · Hampton, VA, US
Sarah is a Hampton native and a member of the Private Client Services Group in the Newport News office of Kaufman & Canoles. Sarah is passionate about her estate practice and working with clients to help them achieve their goals. Her estate planning and administration work with clients ranges from the initial structuring and implementation of their estate plans to the resulting estate and trust administration. Sarah helps clients create wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney and advance medical directives and assists clients with tax planning and succession planning issues. She also represents clients who are administering an estate or trust after a family member has died, providing assistance through the trust implementation or probate process. Sarah has background in real estate and corporate work, and frequently represents clients who have real estate holdings and ownership of small businesses. Sarah also serves as a Commissioner of Accounts for the City of Hampton, which entails the review and audit of filings made by fiduciaries for estates, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, and foreclosures.
Education
William & Mary Law School
J.D.
2002 — 2005
The College of William and Mary
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
1998 — 2002
Skills
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Real Estate
- Legal Research
- Powers of Attorney
- Trusts
- Wills
- Estate Planning
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning
- Real Estate
- Legal Writing
- Litigation
- Estate Administration
- Probate and Estate and Trust Administration
- Elder Law
- Courts
- Corporate Law
- Civil Litigation
- Real Estate Transactions
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