Trust, Estates and Charitable Planning

Associate

Christina focuses her practice on private client matters for high net worth individuals and families. Her practice encompasses all aspects of estate planning, wealth transfer planning, estate and trust administration, business succession planning and charitable planning.

Christina's experience includes drafting complex wills and trust agreements. She routinely counsels clients on estate, gift and generation skipping transfer tax issues and the use of sophisticated transfer tax savings strategies such as irrevocable life insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and the gift and sale of assets to intentionally defective grantor trusts. She also represents trustees, executors and beneficiaries in the administration of trusts and estates and has experience with preparing and reviewing federal estate and gift tax returns.

Prior to joining Withers, she worked as an associate at two law firms with nationally recognized wealth planning and tax practices.

Maryland State Bar

Virginia State Bar

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., LLM in Taxation, Certificate in Estate Planning, with distinction, 2014

University of Florida Levin College of Law. JD, Certificate in Trusts & Estates, cum laude, 2013

Rice University, BA Economics and Managerial Studies, 2008