Lauren Talkington’s practice is concentrated in private client services, specifically estate planning, probate, estate and trust litigation, and business succession planning.
She has extensive experience in preparing estate planning documents to fit clients’ needs, including wills, revocable or irrevocable trusts, as well as incapacity planning documents such as financial and health care powers of attorney. Lauren also provides advice regarding income, gift, and estate tax issues and has extensive experience in preparing taxable estate tax returns, portability estate tax returns, estate and trust income tax returns, as well as gift tax returns.
Lauren has widespread knowledge of fiduciary service matters, including matters of complex estate and trust administration, as well as focused knowledge of generation-skipping and fiduciary tax principles. Lauren also represents fiduciaries – family/friends, licensed professionals or corporate – as well as heirs, beneficiaries or other interested parties in estate, trust, and probate litigation.
Lauren is a Certified Estate and Trust Law Specialist through the State Bar of Arizona.