Trusts & Estates Section
This Section and its working committees deal with issues such as estate planning; trust administration; probate of decedents’ estates; avoidance of probate; and the protection of incompetents and their assets through guardianships and conservatorships.
Section Leaders

Andrew G. Smith

Dina Y. Nam
Executive Committee

Elizabeth G. Acevedo
Program Co-Chair

David A. Shapiro
Program Co-Chair

Courtney Cole Patton
Assistant Program Co-Chair

Jacqueline Yu
Assistant Program Co-Chair

Jennifer McNeil-Lozano
Legal Updates Co-Chair

Teal M. Schoonover
Legal Updates Co-Chair

Jordan C. Parr
Co-Secretary

Mina Sirkin
Co-Secretary

Terry M. Magady
Elder Law Subcommittee Chair

Joseph G. Goldman
Immediate Past Co-Chair

Kevin W. Harrington
Immediate Past Co-Chair
Upcoming Section Events
Legal Updates
- January 2023 Legal Updates
- November 2022 Legal Updates
- September 2022 Legal Updates
- August 2022 Legal Updates
- July 2022 Legal Updates
- June 2022 Legal updates
- April 2022 Legal Updates
- February 2022 Legal Updates
- January 2022 Legal Updates
- November 2021 Legal Updates
- September 2021 Legal Updates
- August 2021 Legal Updates
- July 2021 Legal Updates
- June 2021 Legal Updates
- April 2021 Legal Updates
- February 2021 Legal Updates
- January 2021 BHBA Legal Updates
- November 2020 Legal Updates
- September 2020 Legal Updates
- August 18, 2020 Legal Updates
- August 2020 Legal Updates
- June 2020 Legal Updates
Timothy Whitehouse Awards
March 16, 2021 – Presentation of the Timothy Whitehouse Award to Managing Probate Attorney Dean J. Silliman at the BHBA event “Updates from the Probate Judges”.
August 4, 2020 – Presentation of the Timothy Whitehouse Award to Judge David J. Cowan. Judge Cowan was the Supervising Judge of the Probate & Mental Health Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court before he became the Assistant Supervising Judge of the Civil Division. The Hon. Kevin Brazile, Presiding Judge of the LA Superior Court, and the Hon. Eric Taylor, now Assistant Presiding Judge of the LA Superior Court and incoming Presiding Judge for the 2021-2022 term, attended the BHBA event to congratulate Judge Cowan. More than 200 people virtually attended the BHBA event “Catching Up with the Probate Judges”.
Timothy Whitehouse Award Winners List:

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