Tara’s practice centers on estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration, probate avoidance, and asset alignment in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Tara counsels both individual and corporate trustees in all matters related to trusts and estates, including trust modifications, terminations, mergers, decantings, nonjudicial settlement agreements, and trust situs changes.

During law school, Tara was a notes editor for the George Mason Law Review, completed a judicial internship with the Arlington County Circuit Court, and clerked for several law firms.  In her third year of law school, Tara received third place in the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition.

Following law school, Tara clerked for the Honorable Abigail M. LeGrow of the Delaware Superior Court, Complex Commercial Litigation Division, before becoming an associate attorney.

 Admissions

• Delaware, 2019
• Pennsylvania, 2019

Education

Villanova University School of Law, LL.M. (Taxation), 2024

Villanova University School of Law, Certificate in Estate Planning, 2024

• George Mason University School of Law, Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2018
  • • Third Prize Winner of the 2017 Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition
  • Wilmington University, Bachelor of Science, Finance and Accounting, summa cum laude, 2015
    • Academic Award Winner for the College of Business
    • Sigma Beta Delta Business Honor Society

Professional Associations

• Graduate, Class III of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
• Delaware State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Chester County Bar Association
• Estate Planning Council of Delaware

Thought Leadership

• Transfer of Trust Situs Best Practices, Co-Presentation for Delaware Bankers Association (2023)
• Silent Trusts: Keeping Secrets Can Be Risky Business, Co-Authored for Delaware Banker (Summer 2022)
• Don’t Overlook a Trust’s Material Purpose, Co-Authored for Trusts & Estates Journal (September 2021)
• What to Do During COVID-19: Your Estate Planning, Co-Authored (Spring 2020)