Professional Experience

Ms. Fry joined the firm in 2010 following two years in private practice as an associate with the Austin law firm of Saunders, Norval, Nichols, & Atkins, L.L.P., where she practiced estate planning, probate, and trust law.

Details of Practice

Ms. Fry’s practice is devoted to trust and estate planning and estate administration. Ms. Fry’s trust and estate planning practice involves drafting of wills and trusts, estate, generation skipping and gift tax planning, asset protection, business planning and choice of entity.

Author in Estate Planning

Philanthropy Through the Eyes of the Donor’s Attorney, March 9, 2009, University-Wide Development Officers Meeting, The University of Texas at Austin
Charitable Planning for Clients Who Aren’t Wealthy: Ideas and Forms you can take back to your Office and Use Tomorrow, May 13, 2009, Professional Advisors Day at the University of Texas at Austin
Community Foundations for Estate Planners, June 12, 2009, 33rd Annual Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course, Houston, Texas
Forms from Around the State: When and How to Use Them (and when not to), October 29, 2009, 20th Annual Estate Planning and Probate Drafting Course, Dallas, Texas
Marital Property Agreements: The Overlooked Estate Planning Tool- Viewed from the Estate Planning and Family Law Perspectives: June 24, 2010, 34th Annual Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course, San Antonio, Texas

Professional Activities

81st Legislature Regular Session of Texas: Assisted in drafting the amendments to Section 113.029 of the Texas Property Code, Relocation of Administration of Charitable Trust;
Assisted in working to preserve the Rule Against Perpetuities;
State Bar of Texas, Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section