Our Passion – Wills and Estates:

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Wills and Estates has become Jennifer’s area of passion. Not only because it is an area of law that applies to absolutely everyone, but due to Jennifer’s own personal experience with Wills and Estates Law itself. It is certainly one thing to be a lawyer that is well versed in the law, but it is quite another to experience it firsthand.

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During her second year of law school, Jennifer’s mother was diagnosed with early onset dementia. It was then a rush to ensure that her mother had completed an Enduring Power of Attorney and a Personal Directive while her mother was still mentally competent. Then came the hard decision to have her mother declared mentally incompetent and take over making health care decisions for her mother such as moving her to a long term care facility and looking after her finances.

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5 years after graduating law school, Jennifer’s father died and she assisted her family with obtaining a Grant of Probate for the estate and working with her family to ensure her father’s estate was properly settled.

Jennifer saw firsthand how these legal documents interact with our health care system and financial institutions. She has sat where you may sit – across from a nurse practitioner discussing the decision to stop all treatments, across from an accountant trying to make heads and tails of tax slips, across from a funeral director selecting an urn, across from a banker going over statements and the steps involved with getting money released and bills paid.

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She brings to her practice compassion and understanding for her clients as they navigate an illness or death in the family as well as practical knowledge of challenges they may face as she has gone through the process herself and is here to help.