Barbara E. Katz is an estate planning and probate attorney whose practice is dedicated to assisting individuals and all families in all aspects of estate planning, including completing their wills and health care documents, as well as avoiding probate through the use of revocable living trusts. She is especially dedicated to helping alternative families, such as single parents and same sex couples, as well as unmarried individuals with family of choice, with legal issues in their personal lives.
Barbara also has extensive practice experience in the areas of adoption law and assisted reproductive technology law, but currently focuses her entire practice on wills, trusts, estate planning and probate law.
Barbara has spoken on legal issues related to estate planning for civic and religious groups. She has also spoken at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s seminar on adoption law.
Barbara graduated from the City University of New York School of Law in 1992, and was licensed for the practice of law in the state of Georgia later that year. Her firm’s mission, “Law in the Service of Your Family’s Needs,” was adapted from CUNY’s own mission statement.
In addition to her legal practice, Barbara is a teacher who taught Legal Writing, Research & Advocacy at Emory University School of Law from 1998-2004. She also taught and administered a bar review course offered through Georgia State University School of Law from 1994-2006. Finally, Barbara is a private tutor and offers a bar review course for students taking the Georgia Bar Exam. (See GA Bar Preparation page)
Barbara enjoys spending her free time with her wife. Her passions include bicycling, quilting, knitting and pickleball. She volunteers with the Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer on its volunteer crew.
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