Clara Brown Shaffer

Since 2008 my family members have retained Clara Brown Shaffer to council and prepare family and individual estate plans. Many times none of our family members understood the maze of meetings, networks and representations required to carry out trusts, special needs trusts, irrevocable trusts and the... updates required to keep all of our trusts and estate plans current with annual legal changes. Clara Brown Shaffer maintained contact and gave direction so our ability to choose was based on quality of information, professionalism of council and not haste or time constraints caused by many sources. Furthermore, Clara Brown Shaffer was retained in 2014 after an untimely divorce, deaths of family members and diagnoses of primary handicapping disorders in new members of our family. These changes, after just six short years demanded a little restructuring of our individual and shared estates. As a tremendous credit to Ms. Brown Shaffer, even after a divorce, both parties chose to retain her for additional representation. Her abilities to negotiate and handle diverging estates while, all the time, aligning the trusts that represented individual demands are unmatched. My experiences with other Estate Planning attorneys are worth mentioning as well. Ms Brown Shaffer with Brown & Brown, P.C. along with support staff stands as the foremost representation of Estate Planning. My experiences with Estate Planning attorneys with other firms stem from as far back as 1988. Five different legal firms, have tackled the enormous estate planning for our diverse family's needs. All too often, documents go unsigned, questions go answered, but did we ask the right questions? Did we pose the positions correctly to satisfy converging, shared and diverging assets? The answer was yes! But the missing link was in the follow up provided by Ms. Shaffer. She tried to direct us through the maze of trusts and especially special needs trusts and exhaustive qualifications, but we were having trouble aligning what needed to happen and stay with a schedule. Ms. Brown Shaffer rescued us and did more than all other firms. Her organization and scheduling brought our estate planning to positive closure. As a testament to Ms. Brown Shaffer, Trusts were created by other firms but they never considered the true depth of involvement to provide the extensive additional sections for the protections of family members. We finally learned the depth of trust law and estate law. Through Ms. Shaffer's extensive guidance, our options became clear choices. Ms. Shaffer dauntingly handled the documentation and assembly required to tie shared assets and address individual assets. With alternatives and clear choice of paths directed through conditional occurrence we realized what a tremendous asset Clara Brown Shaffer had become to our family. When the time came to sign the trusts and extensive documentation, there was finally, no doubt from anyone. For the 1st time since our growing and shrinking family's attempt to create estate planning in 1988, everything was aligned, documented and signed. That 1st happened in 2008 and again in 2014. I have peace of mind knowing that my final wishes and choices are made and I am confident I can depart without regret. You can only achieve peace through passing if you have a great plan in place and the education provided through proper council. I remain pleased through my choices with my family through blood, marriage and war. I have peace of mind and I sleep better at night. God Loves You Clara Brown Shaffer and my family does too!

It is a privledge to work with Ms. Shaffer. She is patient, kind, knowledgable and is always available to me via her team or directly as needed. She is well informed and offers compassion with wisdom during very difficult and trying times. Having Ms. Shaffer represent me has been such a great ex...perience. Her knowledge of family dynamics and elder law exhibits a level of understanding that is unequaled. Her professionalism is transparent as only the best can afford to be. Thank you for this opportunity to recommend and endorse Ms. Shaffer.

We were disappointed with Ms. Shaffer's performance with regard to a relative's will, trust and estate matters. She is basically a paperwork attorney, and when other issues arose, her knowledge and experience were inadequate to deal with them. Since you can never tell when additional issues are going... to arise with regard to will, trust and estate matters (and they very likely can), if you want a lawyer who is prepared and willing to handle a wider range of situations, we would advise seeking another attorney.