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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.

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– John Quincy Adams

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

– John D. Rockefeller

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln