Foster, Stanbery Jr.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Stanbery Foster, Jr. is Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Williams Kastner. He assists clients in defining, formulating, and carrying out wealth and legacy strategies for the control, management, and protection of assets of less than $100,000 to over $30,000,000. Mr. Foster's practice involves wills, trusts, community property agreements (and other domestic partner agreements), guardianships, elder law, gifts, taxation, the administration and settlement of trusts and estates (through probate or by avoiding probate), litigation and dispute management concerning inheritances and trusts and family business succession planning. He is a trained mediator in trust and estate matters. He is a trained mediator in trust and estate and has been named to The Best Lawyers in America for 2007 and 2009 in the area of Trusts and Estates, and to Super Lawyers for 2008 to 2010 by Washington Law & Politics magazine. Mr. Foster has also been recognized by the Seattle Met magazine as a "Top Lawyer" in Estate Planning for 2010, a designation based upon Martindale-Hubbell's ranking of those practitioners in King County who have been judged by their peers to be "AV Preeminent"-the highest peer-review rating available.

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Tax & Trusts

West Practice Categories

Estate Planning

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Rotary Club of Seattle (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Member, Real Property, Probate & Trusts)
• Washington State Bar Association (Member, Real Property, Probate & Trusts)
• Seattle Estate Planning Council (Member)
• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Fellow and Regent)
• American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trusts Section)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America, in the area of Trusts and Estates, 2007 - Present
• Super Lawyers (Washington Law & Politics magazine), 2008 - Present

Education

• University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho, 1968
  J.D.
• St. Martin's University, 1965
  B.A.

Address

Two Union Square
601 Union Street, Suite 4100
Seattle, WA 98101-2380

Phones

(206) 233-2864

Faxes

(206) 628-6611

Emails

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Websites

http://www.williamskastner.com