Cumberland Legacy Law* provides the highest quality estate planning for clients in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee. Whether you need a sophisticated strategy for minimizing or avoiding estate taxes and providing maximum possible asset protection, or just a simple will or trust to ensure your assets are distributed in accordance with your wishes, or anything in between, we are here to help you and your loved ones.
We present seminars on a variety of estate planning and elder law topics; call us if you want to be on our seminar mailing list, or subscribe to our newsletter by jotting a quick note to us.
Nina Whitehurst, the owner of Cumberland Legacy Law, is a member of Wealth Counsel, Elder Counsel and the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, all national estate planning attorney organizations. She is continually upgrading and updating her knowledge of estate planning law through seminars and being an active member of several estate planning attorney email list serves. Her husband, Brian Whitehurst, is the firm's marketing coordinator. Nina Lamothe is the firm's documentation paralegal.
*Cumberland Legacy Law is not a public legal aid society.
- Arizona State University
- J.D. (1986) | Law
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- Arizona State University
- B.S. (1983) | Accounting
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- Honors: Summa Cum Laude
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- Cumberland Legacy Law
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- Wills, Trusts and Nursing Home Asset Protection, Various
- Client Champion SILVER
- Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Services
- AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated
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- Selected: 2017-2021
- ElderCounsel
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- National Association of Elder Law Attorneys
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- Wealth Counsel
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- State Bar of Tennessee # 037146
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- State Bar of Alaska # 1802010
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- State Bar of Oregon # 172386
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- State Bar of Colorado # 26720
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- State Bar of California # 159873
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- State Bar of Arizona # 011030
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
No legal advice is provided prior to engagement. You will know when you have engaged an attorney because you will have signed a fee agreement and will have provided a deposit for legal fees.
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Elder Law
- Probate
- Probate Administration
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Mortgages, Residential Real Estate
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. My dad named me on his living trust. Lawyer says I'm getting nothing. Can I be named not to get anything
- A: Yes that is entirely possible. It could be because the estate is insolvent. Or you might have been intentionally disinherited.
- Q. In an A/B trust, can the surviving spouse draw from the principal balance of the Bypass Trust?
- A: It is not possible to answer your question without reading the trust. They are not all the same. You should schedule a consultation with a trust administration attorney.
- Q. My mother is 93 and suffers from dementia.i'm 75 and six (6) years ago I completed a 30 plus year prison sentence.
- A: A fiduciary litigation attorney can help you attempt to get someone else appointed as conservator for your mother, and the conservator can sue your sister to get stolen money and assets back.