Valerie L. Howe is Of Counsel with the Firm. Valerie joined Mason, Griffin & Pierson, P.C. in 1991 as an Associate, after practicing law with a private law firm, and following a distinguished career as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps where she served as both a prosecutor and defense counsel. Valerie is a member of the Firm’s Estates and Trusts Practice Group. Valerie’s practice is focused on federal and state estate tax planning, Wills, Trusts designed to protect children and other beneficiaries, Special Needs Trusts, Durable Powers of Attorney, Living Wills/Medical Powers of Attorney, digital asset planning, and assisting Executors with the administration of estates. She has a Masters of Law in Taxation and assists estate planning clients and Executors with comprehensive tax preparation, including federal estate and gift tax returns, inheritance tax returns, and Trust and Estate income tax returns.

• Durable Financial Powers of Attorney
• Estate Administration
• Estate Planning
• Estates & Trusts
• Federal Estate & Gift Tax Returns
• Federal Estate, Gift & Income Taxation
• Living Wills
• Medical Powers of Attorney
• New Jersey Inheritance Tax Returns
• The SECURE ACT
• Special Needs Trusts
• Trust & Estate Income Tax Returns
• Wills

OBar Admissions

• New Jersey
• Virginia

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

• George Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1984
• College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe Law School, LL.M. (Taxation) 1989
• University of Virginia, B.A., 1980