Summary

As an estate planning attorney, Elaine Yandrisevits is committed to guiding individuals and families through the process of planning for their future needs. Elaine takes the time to develop an understanding of her clients’ goals and priorities and helps them to develop comprehensive estate plans which provide for their families and preserve their wealth in future generations. Elaine concentrates her practice in estate planning, asset protection and wealth transfer planning, planning for retirement and life insurance benefits, probate and estate administration, trust administration, and estate and trust fiduciary litigation matters.

Elaine counsels individuals and families to design and implement their estate plans through core planning documents such as Wills, Revocable Trusts, Powers of Attorney and Healthcare Advance Directives/Living Wills. Additionally, Elaine advises high net-worth individuals about the effects of the Federal Estate Tax, Federal Gift Tax, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax on their estate plans, and develops more advanced documents where appropriate, including Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Qualified Domestic Trusts, Charitable Remainder/Lead Trusts, among other techniques.

In the Orphans’ Court and Surrogate’s Court, Elaine represents fiduciaries and individuals in fiduciary litigation matters, including will contests, trust modifications, petitions for allowance, and accountings.

Elaine is active in the Bucks County Bar Association, where she is a member of the Board of Directors and served as the Chair of the Bench Bar Conference Committee, Orphans’ Court Section, and Young Lawyers’ Division. Elaine is the Zone 9 Co-Chair for the Young Lawyers’ Division of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and was a member of the Bar Leadership Institute Class of 2022-2023. Elaine is also a member of the Bucks County Estate Planning Council.

Elaine earned her J.D. from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, and LL.M. in Taxation and an Estate Planning Certificate from the Graduate Tax Program at Villanova University School of Law. Elaine is a graduate of the University of Delaware, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Political Science and History and was named to the Dean’s List every semester. Elaine is also a proud former member of the University of Delaware marching band, symphonic band, and pep band.

Elaine has been selected to the Thomson Reuters Pennsylvania Rising Stars List, 2020 - 2024.

In her free time, Elaine enjoys traveling, hiking, and following her favorite sports teams.

 

Professional Memberships:

Pennsylvania Bar Association: Young Lawyers' Division (Zone 9 Co-Chair, 2022 - 2025); Real Property Probate and Trust Section
Bucks County Bar Association: Board of Directors (2024-2026); Bench Bar Conference Committee (Chair, 2022 and 2024); Budget and Bar Property Committee; Young Lawyers' Division (Chair, 2023); Orphans' Court Section (Chair, 2023); Member Services Committee
Bucks County Estate Planning Council

 

Honors, Awards:

Named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers "Rising Star" by Thomson Reuters, (2020 - 2024)
Bucks County Bar Association President's Award, 2022
Pennsylvania Bar Association Bar Leadership Institute, Class of 2022 - 2023

  

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

• Presenter, Estate Planning: Top 7 Tools to Know, National Business Institute, August 2018
• Presenter, The Probate Process from Start to Finish, National Business Institute, August 2018
• Presenter, Special Needs Trusts in a Nutshell, video webcast, National Business Institute, August 2018
• Member, Philadelphia Estate Planning Council and Lehigh Valley Estate Planning Council
• Presenter and Materials Author, Estate Administration Boot Camp, National Business Institute, April 2018
• Presenter, Estate Planning for Younger Clients, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, January 2018
• Course Planner, Estate Planning: Drafting Wills, POAs, and Living Wills, Wolters Kluwer, October 2017
• Course Planner, Administering an Estate in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, September 2017
• Presenter and Materials Author, The Ultimate Guide to Probate, National Business Institute, July 2017