M.R. Litman focuses her practice on estate tax planning, estate and trust taxation and administration, business succession planning, and fiduciary litigation. M.R. enjoys working with clients to accomplish their estate planning goals, including the preparation and administration of wills and trusts. M.R. has extensive experience litigating will contests, will and trust construction cases, family and probate disputes, and cases which involve the misconduct of fiduciaries and the misappropriation of funds. She has handled several complex family disputes involving elective share claims, prenuptial agreements, business succession planning, and the administration of estates in multiple jurisdictions.
M.R. works with disabled and incapacitated persons and their families in the establishment of special needs trusts and advises on guardianship and conservatorship matters.
She also handles general corporate work for closely held businesses and nonprofits, including nonprofit formation. She is a board member of the Rotary Club of Richmond, President of the Camp Alleghany Alumni Association, and a mentor with the Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association. M.R. is also a member of the Trust Administrators Council of Richmond, the Richmond Estate Planning Council, and the NeXt Estate Planning Group. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering for the National Brittany Rescue & Adoption Network (NBRAN) and taking on projects at her church.
M.R. is admitted to practice in Virginia and West Virginia. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she served as the recruitment editor for the Journal of Law and the Public Interest. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in political science from Vanderbilt University.
M.R. has been selected to the 2022 Virginia Super Lawyers List as a Rising Star.
She works with Thomson Reuters to author five Practical Law publications each year: Revocable Trusts Virginia and Power of Attorney (VA).