Karen Chilina is an attorney for and shareholder of Chilina Law Firm, focusing on estate planning and real property matters. Karen earned her Juris Doctorate from Concord Law School, graduating with highest honors. Karen earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology from Southern Oregon University in March 1999 and later earned a Paralegal Certficate from California Polytechnic State University.
Karen is enthusiastic about the law and enjoys helping her clients through their legal matters by providing high quality legal services and maintaining and encouraging open communication. Prior to her admission to the State Bar of California and joining Chilina Law Firm, Karen owned and operated Chilina Paralegal Services, a contract paralegal business providing litigation, research, and transactional support to local civil law, administrative law, and criminal law attorneys. Karen also worked as a paralegal for the real estate and land use practice group of the law firm Adamski Moroski Madden Cumberland & Green, LLP before opening Chilina Paralegal Services. Prior to her work with AMMC&G, Karen worked in the commercial real estate industry, both in office management and appraisal.
In addition to providing pro bono legal services to local non-profit organizations, Karen also serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of North San Luis Obispo County. Karen and her family live in Atascadero, California where she enjoys hiking, mountain biking, swimming, reading, baking, and spending time in the outdoors with her husband and son.
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Acquired: 2014
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7840 Morro Road, Suite 210D, Atascadero, CA, 93422
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Posted by Patty | October 16, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning
Excellent service!
Karen completed a family trust for me. She was thorough, prompt and helpful. Excellent service and support.
Posted by Jessica | October 16, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Thorough, helpful, & timely
Karen & Greg helped us with both creating an LLC as well as our family trust. We had a lot of moving parts and they were able to put everything together, answer all questions we had, and provided friendly, top notch service... very knowledgeable, we highly recommend them!
Posted by Cheryl | July 24, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Probate
Excellent Estate Planning Attorney
After being the executor of my step-mom’s estate and engaging the services of the Chilina Law Firm to facilitate the probate process I determined I wanted to assure my own affairs were in order. I hired Karen Chilina to educate me on the estate planning process and guide me in making the best decisio...
Posted by Annette | June 30, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Trusts
Excellent Attorney
Karen is very professional and thorough in everything she does. She was very understanding and helpful to me, a successor trustee to interpret trust documents, understand my duties as a trustee and ensure that the trust is managed and dissolved correctly. She oversaw the fiduciary accounting of trust...
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"I endorse this lawyer. Karen and I have worked together on many estate planning matters. She is very professional and knowledgeable in both estate planning and real estate legal matters."
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