Nina Whitehurst
Planning for peace of mind and wealth preservation.
Cumberland Legacy Law* provides the highest quality estate planning for clients in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee. Whether you need a sophisticated strategy for minimizing or avoiding estate taxes and providing maximum possible asset protection, or just a simple will or trust to ensure your assets are distributed in accordance with your wishes, or anything in between, we are here to help you and your loved ones.
We present seminars on a variety of estate planning and elder law topics; call us if you want to be on our seminar mailing list, or subscribe to our newsletter by jotting a quick note to us.
Nina Whitehurst, the owner of Cumberland Legacy Law, is a member of Wealth Counsel, Elder Counsel and the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, all national estate planning attorney organizations. She is continually upgrading and updating her knowledge of estate planning law through seminars and being an active member of several estate planning attorney email list serves. Her husband, Brian Whitehurst, is the firm's marketing coordinator. Nina Lamothe is the firm's documentation paralegal.
*Cumberland Legacy Law is not a public legal aid society.
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Elder Law
- Probate
- Probate Administration
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Mortgages, Residential Real Estate
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- California
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- Colorado
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- Oregon
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- Tennessee
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- English: Spoken, Written
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- Cumberland Legacy Law
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- Arizona State University
- J.D. (1986) | Law
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- Arizona State University
- B.S. (1983) | Accounting
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- Honors: Summa Cum Laude
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- Client Champion SILVER
- Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Services
- AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected: 2017-2021
- ElderCounsel
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- National Association of Elder Law Attorneys
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- Wealth Counsel
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- State Bar of Tennessee # 037146
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- State Bar of Alaska # 1802010
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- State Bar of Oregon # 172386
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- State Bar of Colorado # 26720
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- State Bar of California # 159873
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- State Bar of Arizona # 011030
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- Wills, Trusts and Nursing Home Asset Protection, Various
- Website
- Nina Whitehurst, Attorney at Law, Professional Website
- Blog
- Nina Whitehurst, Attorney at Law, Professional Blog
- Estate Planning Basics: What Is an Executrix?
March 27, 2023 - What Is a Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT)?
March 24, 2023 - Estate Planning: An At-a-Glance Overview
March 22, 2023
- Q. What can I do?
- A: Probate court files are public records. You can walk into the court and ask to look at the file and make copies. Or you can hire a lawyer to review the file for you and give you advice about things you can do to obtain information.
- Q. I live with mom's ex boyfriend. He is going to die from accident. No will and no relatives. Can I keep his home and all?
- A: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but living with him for years does not entitle you to anything. He needs to at least draw up a will leaving everything to you. There are other things he can do as well such as naming you as beneficiary on bank and brokerage accounts and retirement accounts and life insurance, as applicable.
- Q. Hi! My sister received a check from UBS made out to *** <her mother's name> TRUST ***
- A: Any check can be deposited. You just need an account in the name of the trust. If you do not have such an account, then you will need to open one. In order to open one you will need a taxpayer ID number for the trust. You are probably also going to need an updated certification of trust. My best advice to you is to hire a trust administration attorney to help you with this.
