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Atty. Michelle Jacobs Chapin, Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA


Summary

Michelle Chapin, a member of the firm?s Estate Planning, Estate & Trust Administration, Tax and Corporate practice groups, advises individuals, families and small business owners regarding their estate and gift planning needs. Recognized as a Top Trusts and Estates Lawyer in Washingtonian magazine, Michelle excels at providing clients with easy to understand explanations of intricate legal and tax matters. She works closely with her clients to create comprehensive and customized estate and business succession plans to achieve their tax and non-tax wealth preservation objectives. She also helps clients implement lifetime gifting and post-mortem wealth transfer strategies and counsels fiduciaries on estate and trust administration matters. Michelle focuses a part of her practice on estate planning for clients with international issues, including estate, gift and other tax concerns of non-U.S. citizens, U.S. citizens with non-U.S. citizen spouses, and U.S. citizens owning property abroad. When she's not being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal or speaking to various groups in the DC metropolitan area, Michelle enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and 2 children.Prior to joining Paley Rothman, Michelle practiced for several years at a law firm in Northern Virginia where she assisted clients with gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning as well as probate. View More ?

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Education

Georgetown University Law Center
Certificate | Estate Planning
Honors: With Distinction, Dean?s List
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Georgetown University Law Center
LL.M. (2011) | Taxation
Honors: With Distinction, Dean?s List
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American University Washington College of Law
J.D. (2005)
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University of Florida
B.A. (2002)
Honors: With Honors
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Experience

District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia

Address

Paley Rothman
4800 Hampden Lane
6th Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814
Telephone: (301) 656-7603
Fax: (301) 654-7354