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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.

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

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Jack Kerouac

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Brian Tracy

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

– Zig Ziglar

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Basil King

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

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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"

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Lord Chesterfield

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

“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.

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Carl Rogers

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

– Robert Frost

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison