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Attorney Lisa Hughes, Estate Planner

Attorney Lisa M. Hughes is experienced at preparing wills and trusts, powers of attorney, guardianships, and conservatorships; in administering estates of decedents and incapacitated individuals; and in the related tax and asset-protection planning. Her particular areas of focus include succession planning for closely held businesses, same-sex couples, and incapacitated beneficiaries, as well as certain elder-law challenges and trusts for those with special needs.

A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Hughes is licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and has more than two decades of experience in estates, trusts, and wealth-planning.

Additionally, Hughes is a member of the Board of Governors of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Virginia State Bar; she is a Public Safety Trainer with the Commonwealth Autism Service www.autismva.org; and she serves as legal counsel to Spectrum Housing Foundation, a tax-exempt organization that facilitates support for disabled adults.

Contact Lisa Hughes by email.

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake