J.D., M.B.A
Good advice and help with family law, estate planning, and guardianship are absolutely essential. The FindingAssistedLiving.com Senior Transition Pro Team is very pleased to announce the association of a new member, Mrs. Wendy Mara. Mrs. Mara has distinguished herself in a very short time, becoming President of the Volusia County Bar Association after practicing law for only 7 years and just recently being selected as a 2016 Super Lawyer Rising Star in the areas of probate and estate planning. Along the way, she achieved an impressive record of academic, professional, community and personal accomplishments.
After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Stetson University, she taught high school for 13 years. While a full-time teacher, she earned an MBA from the University of Central Florida. As a student and graduate student, she was selected for membership in both the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. In law school, she was a teaching and research assistant, earned the Dean’s Certificate for Pro Bono Work and became an award winning oralist for the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. As a practicing attorney, she has been recognized by her peers and honored by election to offices, including the president’s position, in both the Volusia County Bar Association and the Volusia-Flagler Association for Women Lawyers.
Outside the legal profession, she has been a member of the Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, a winner of the 2013 Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award and is a former Chairperson of the PACE Center for Girls. Like all of the professionals on the Finding Assisted Living Senior Transition Pro Team, Wendy Mara will apply her considerable skills to solving any and all problems associated with the transition to senior life.
The FindingAssistedLiving.com Senior Transition Pro Team is dedicated to providing answers and solutions for all those making the transition to senior living and a senior lifestyle. A successful move to senior living involves making numerous decisions and choices. Few people are qualified to make all of these judgments without help and guidance. That is why the Senior Transition Pro Team exists. A web, an association of independent and exceedingly qualified professionals, the FAL Senior Transition Pro Team provides guidance to questions ranging from medical issues to estate and tax planning.
One of the keys to a happy transition to senior lifestyles is sound legal advice and planning. The future disposition of estates, inheritances and property should be taken care of well in advance. Any family, domestic or guardianship issues should be resolved and legal documents like wills, living wills and advance directives should be in place. If there are any conflicts, they should be decided with sound advice and mutual understanding.
Finding Assisted Living, www.FindingAssistedLiving.com and the Senior Transition Pro Team all share the same purpose. Our mission is to make every person’s move to a senior lifestyle a happy, satisfying, safe and fulfilling experience. This is an ambitious goal and the process is not simple. A successful transition may involve medical and legal choices, tax and estate planning, family and domestic law, buying and selling real estate, finding an assisted living facility or numerous other matters. The Senior Transition Pro Team has experts in all these fields. Finding Assisted Living and the Senior Transition Pro Team experts in many fields can be your source of unbiased, well-informed guidance and advice.
