Heintz, Helen C.

Current Employment Position(s)

Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Helen C. Heintz is Counsel in the Private Client Services Department at Wiggin and Dana. Ms. Heintz advises clients regarding tax-efficient gift and estate planning. She also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries regarding all aspects of trust and estate administration, including taxation and fiduciary law. She routinely represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries before the Surrogate's Courts and Probate Courts in a variety of matters including probate proceedings, fiduciary appointments and removal, guardianship proceedings, accounting proceedings and contested matters.

Ms. Heintz received her B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York. During law school, she served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.

Ms. Heintz is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and the Trusts and Estates Section of the New York State Bar Association, as well as the American Bar Association. Before joining Wiggin and Dana, she practiced law in New York City for five years.

Areas of Practice

• Trusts and Estates

West Practice Categories

Estate Planning, Trusts

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut
• New York
• Pennsylvania

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Connecticut Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Education

• Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York, 1997
  J.D.
  Law Journal: Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Executive Notes and Comments Editor
• Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1998
  B.A.
  Major: Political Science

Address

400 Atlantic Street
P.O. Box 110325
Stamford, CT 06911-0325

Phones

(203) 363-7607

Faxes

(203) 363-7676

Emails

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Websites

http://www.wiggin.com