Linda D. Hartley

Linda Hartley provides compassionate guidance to families in all areas related to the transfer of wealth by helping them navigate the complexities in both the estate planning and estate administration phases.

Linda’s practice is primarily devoted to estate planning, probate, trust and estate administration, post-mortem tax planning, and trust and estate disputes.

Linda enjoys working with families to achieve a variety of estate planning objectives, including multi-generational transfer of wealth, succession planning for closely-held businesses, charitable planned giving, and life insurance planning, and modification of irrevocable trusts. She also works with family members and professional fiduciaries through the probate and trust administration process after a death and the related post-mortem tax issues. Her clients include several regional and national banking establishments.

Linda is active in both professional activities and the community. She is a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Hillsborough County and Florida Bar Associations. She is a past president of the Tampa Bay Estate Planning Council, served as a trustee on the Board of the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and currently serves on its Council of Professional Advisors, and is a past board chair of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross.