When to Revisit Your Estate Plan
February 14, 2025
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Jennifer V. Boyer
Trusts and Estates Attorney
Jenny is a trusts and estates attorney based in the firm's Asheville office. Her practice focuses on preparing estate plans tailor-made to fit the individual needs of her clients and their families. Jenny is experienced in assisting clients in a wide range of trusts and estates legal matters including estate and trust administration and related tax filings. She is also well-versed in revising and drafting wills, trusts, and ancillary documents to help each client protect and preserve their assets, as well as meet personal goals and objectives.
Jenny also helps clients modify or decant existing irrevocable trusts to address out-of-date planning and better serve her clients' needs. Additionally, Jenny advises clients on business formation and business succession planning for family and closely-held businesses.
Before becoming an attorney, Jenny worked as a paralegal specialist in the Procedure and Administration department of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. She reviewed and edited various Tax Court pleadings and motions as the lead paralegal for the division's litigation program. She also drafted internal procedural and legal memoranda, in addition to preparing responses used by the Department of Justice in FOIA requests.
While in law school at the University of Virginia, she was an editorial board member for the Virginia Law & Business Review and worked at the University's Legal Aid Justice Center in the Elder Law Clinic.
Education
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2014;
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
Honors and Distinctions*
- The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers®, 2022-2025
- Readers' Choice Award, Wealth Management, JD Supra, 2024
- Younger Lawyer Pro Bono Award, Buncombe County Bar and Pisgah Legal Services, 2023
- Leadership Asheville, Graduate of Class 36
- Biltmore Beacon's 40 Under Forty Honoree, Class of 2017
Professional and Community Affiliations
- United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County: Past Co-Chair of Women United; Board Member; Co-Chair of the Tocqueville Society
- Pisgah Legal Services' Development Council and Young Professionals Board Member
- Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Women for Women Member
Admitted to Practice
North Carolina, 2014
* Please see the following websites for an explanation of the membership standards for the following recognitions: www.bestlawyers.com; businessnc.com/special-sections/legal-elite/; and www.superlawyers.com/north-carolina.
