Melinda
Leaver Roy
Attorney
mroy@churchill-law.com
Practice:
Melinda’s
practice emphasizes estate planning and administration,
including:
- Developing plans to reduce federal
estate taxes and Oregon inheritance
taxes.
- Designing a variety of wills
and trusts to provide for spouses,
children, and others after death.
- Drafting
revocable living trusts to avoid probate
and provide for asset management in
the event of incapacity.
- Designing trusts
to provide for future educational needs
of children.
- Counseling clients regarding
charitable gifting.
- Drafting irrevocable
trusts to remove life insurance benefits
from the taxable estate.
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Background:
- Wheaton College, B.A., Magna Cum
Laude, 1989.
- University of Florida College of
Law, J.D., With Honors, 1993.
- Order of the Coif.
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Donald
S. Russell, Circuit Court Judge,
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth
Circuit.
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Professional Memberships:
- Member, Oregon State Bar (estate
Planning and Administration Sections).
- Member, Willamette Valley Estate Planning Council.
- Past President, Willamette Valley Estate Planning Council.
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Presentations
& Authorship:
- Author of chapter “Intestate
Succession, Wills, and Community
Property” for the Oregon State
Bar CLE book “Administering
Oregon Estates”.
- Frequent presenter to financial planners, accountants, attorneys, and other professionals
on estate planning topics.
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Personal:
Melinda and her husband, Matthew, reside
in Salem with their daughters, Sarah and
Anna. Melinda is active in her local church,
Salem Alliance Church, and enjoys quilting,
swimming, tennis and the beach.
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