Janet L. Brewer - Biography

Janet Brewer has practiced California estate, gift-planning, and probate law exclusively since 1991. She is a California certified estate planning and probate specialist, one of fewer than 100 practicing in Santa Clara County and fewer than 5,000 practicing in California (out of approximately 100,000 lawyers statewide).

Ms. Brewer specializes in preparing wills and revocable living trusts, administering estates and trusts, probating estates, forming family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, and establishing a wide variety of tax-sensitive trusts – including children's trusts, charitable trusts, and irrevocable life insurance trusts. She also prepares estate tax returns for decedents whose estates have more than $1,500,000 of assets.

Ms. Brewer serves as an Instructor in the CFP (certified financial planner) program at UC – Santa Cruz and teaches estate planning for the UCSC Certified Financial Planner certificate program.

Prior to founding her estate-planning practice, Ms. Brewer worked as a corporate attorney for a number of firms, including Corvus Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Hills Bros. Coffee, and Telebit Corporation. She received her law degree from the University of Denver Law School in 1975 and was admitted to the California Bar in 1977. She earned her MBA degree from Golden Gate University in 1982.

Bar Admissions:
California, 1977
Colorado, 1975

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