Dara J. Goldsmith
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Email: dgoldsmith@goldguylaw.com

Practice Areas: Probate; Estate Planning; Business Planning; Taxation; Liquor Licensing; Guardianships; Estate Administration; Estate Litigation; Wills; Contested Wills; Inheritance; Living Wills; Missing Heir Searches; Successions; Trusts and Estates; Contested Trusts and Estates; Decedents Estates; Estate Bankruptcy; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Estate Planning for the Disabled; Estate Planning for the Elderly; Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples; Estate Settlements; Family Trusts; Family Wealth Transfer; Fiduciary Liability; Fiduciary Litigation; Living Trusts; Pet Trusts; Powers of Attorney; Special Needs Trusts; Surrogates Court Practice; Trust Administration; Trust and Estate Collections; Trust Law; Trust Litigation; Trust Planning; Unclaimed Property; Wealth Preservation; Alcoholic Beverages; Local Liquor Options; Alcoholic Beverage Control; Business Law; Business Dissolutions; Business Estate Planning; Business Formation; Business Organization; Business Reorganization; Business Succession Planning; Business Successions; Buy-Sell Agreements; Buying and Selling of Businesses; Closely Held Business Estate Planning; Family Business Law; Pass-Through Entities; Professional Practices.

Admitted: 1991, Nevada, California and Arizona; 2002, Hawaii; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. District Court, District of Nevada; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

Law School: Pepperdine University, School of Law, J.D., 1990; University of Miami, LL.M., Taxation, 1991

College: California State University, Northridge, B.A., Economics, 1987; University of Miami, Thesis, 1994

Member: State Bar of Nevada (Member, Client-Security Fund, 1999-2003; State Bar of California; State Bar of Arizona; Hawaii State and American (Member: Real Property and Probate and Tax Law Sections) Bar Associations; Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council; Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys.

Biography: Recipient: Lloyd D. George Professionalism Award, State Bar of Nevada and the Clark County Bar Association, 2007; Nevada Women of Distinction Award in the area of Philanthropy, 2004; Nevada's Top 40 under 40 In Business, 2001. Member: State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors, 2001-; Board of Directors, Clark County Bar Foundation, 2007-; Nevada Community Foundation (Board of Directors, 1998-; Chairperson, Board of Directors, 2003-2005). Board of Directors, 1993-2000 and President, 2000, Clark County Bar Association. President, Clark County Law Foundation, 2000-2001.

Languages: Spanish.

Reported Cases: In the Matter of the Tiffany Trust, 124 Nev.Adv.Op. No 8 (2008).

Born: Los Angeles, California, September 26, 1966

ISLN: 901510745