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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.

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– Avenida Margarita

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Christopher Morley

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– John Quincy Adams

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Robert Frost

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

– John Lennon

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

– Woodrow Wilson

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Helen Keller

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

– Virginia Woolf

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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"

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

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