Tara represents clients in a broad range of matters, with a primary focus on trusts and estates issues, and corporate transactions. She enjoys combining her litigation, corporate, and transactional experience with a thorough knowledge of probate law to provide comprehensive representation of professional fiduciaries, personal representatives, conservators, trustees, beneficiaries, heirs and other interested parties in a full range of contested and uncontested matters involving the administration of trusts and estates. Tara also provides estate planning services and is experienced in corporate transactions.
Before joining Fenton & Keller in 2022, Tara represented proposed conservatees in conservatorship actions and clients in various probate matters. She also gained experience working for an international law firm assisting in the representation of public and private sector clients for a variety of litigation and corporate matters, as well as business transactions, and nonprofit and corporate formation and governance issues. Tara’s foundational experience makes her uniquely adept at advocating for and assisting clients through what are often very difficult issues, whether walking through the planning process with estate planning clients, helping clients with the administration of a trust or estate after the incapacity or death of a loved one, or resolving trusts and estates disputes with other parties.
Fully committed to serving the local community, Tara has presented on business topics through the Monterey County Business Council, is a current board member and secretary for Legal Services for Seniors, and volunteers through her church involvement and other local organizations, including as a scoring attorney in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties for the California Mock Trial program. In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking, travel, and exploring the opportunities life along Monterey Bay has to offer.
Principal Areas of Practice
Fiduciary Representation, Probate, Trust, & Conservatorship Administration, Trusts & Estates Litigation, Estate Planning, Business Transactions
Education
- Washington State University, B.A.
- Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D.
Professional Qualifications and Activities
- Admitted to the California Bar in 2022
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Admitted to the Alaska Bar in 2007
- Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
Memberships
- Legal Services for Seniors (current Board Member and Secretary)
- Professional Fiduciary Association of California (Affiliate Member)
- Trusts & Estates Section, California Lawyers Association
- Business Law Section, California Lawyers Association
- Monterey County Bar Association
- Trusts & Estates Section, Monterey County Bar Association
- Monterey County Women Lawyers Association
- St. Thomas More Society of Santa Clara County
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