Molly provides comprehensive advice on all aspects of estate planning and administration. She simplifies the most complex concepts so that clients understand their estate plans and make informed choices. Molly partners with clients over time to ensure their plans support their goals.
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Molly offers more than three decades of experience designing and executing strategies for families with both simple and complicated family and financial circumstances. Her clients include business owners, professionals, executives, venture capital and real estate investors, and multigenerational families. Molly meets regularly with clients in Washington, D.C. and Tysons Corner, VA.
As a family advisor, Molly provides clients with a clear explanation of the components of an estate plan, and then continues to monitor and update them as her clients' circumstances change. In addition to wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, and advance medical directives, Molly prepares dynasty trusts (generation-skipping trusts, or GSTs), premarital agreements, grantor-retained annuity trusts (GRATs), spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), charitable remainder unitrusts or annuity trusts (CRUTs and CRATs), charitable lead trusts (CLTs), private foundation governance documents, limited liability company (LLC) agreements, irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), special-needs trusts, business succession plans, trusts for the transfer of carried interests or other business interests, trusts for asset protection, and other structures to protect assets from taxes, creditors, divorcing spouses, or, at time, from the beneficiaries' themselves. Many irrevocable trusts can now be changed with nonjudicial settlement agreements or decanting, which Molly utilizes when appropriate. She also addresses the U.S. estate planning aspects for clients with connections to foreign jurisdictions.
With compassionate understanding and straightforward instructions, Molly guides clients through the estate administration process during their most difficult times. She helps clients to navigate the logistics when a family member dies and an estate plan takes effect.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.