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FTLF - Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP / 2001 L Street NW, Second Floor, Washingtion DC 20036 / phone: (202) 466-8960 /  fax: (202) 293-8103

Karen Koser Schwartz 

Address: 2001 L Street N.W.
Second Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20036

Phone: (202) 466-8960
E-mail: kschwartz@feldesmantucker.com
Fax: (202) 293-8103
Web site:    http://www.feldesmantucker.com
 


PositionAreas of PracticeEducation


Professional Information

Kay Schwartz specializes in estate planning and administration and in related areas of federal and state tax law, including estate and gift tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, and fiduciary income tax.  Her practice in these areas includes estate planning for multiple generations of families; drafting complex wills and trusts; planning for corporate retirement benefits; resolving tax controversies involving federal and state transfer tax issues; administering large and complex estates and trusts comprising assets in multiple domestic and foreign jurisdictions; and litigating estate and trust administration issues. 

Ms. Schwartz also advises attorneys in the Firm's family law practice on income, gift and estate tax issues arising in the context of separation and divorce. 

Ms. Schwartz is a graduate of Yale Law School.  Before joining Feldesman Tucker, she practiced in the trusts and estates departments of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale), Covington & Burling LLP and Arnold & Porter LLP.  She is a member of the D.C. Estate Planning Council and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Current Employment Position(s):

Partner

Year Joined Organization:

2006

Areas of Practice:

Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning

Bar Admissions:

District of Columbia

Education:

Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972 J.D.

Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965 A.B.

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