Areas of Practice:

Estate Planning

Estate Administration

Real Estate Transactions

Business Law

Business and Tax Planning

Bar Admissions:

Maryland

District of Columbia

Virginia

California

New Mexico

U.S. District Court for the

        District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the

        District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the

        Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the

        District of Maryland

U.S. Court of Appeals for the

        Fourth Circuit

Marilyn J. Brasier, a senior attorney with the Firm’s Real Estate and Banking Practice Group, assists clients with the development of comprehensive estate plans.  Ms. Brasier is capable of creating and administering estate plans for both uncomplicated estates, as well as for estates involving significant assets and/or complex issues, such as second marriages, business succession, special needs and long term disability.  She has extensive knowledge of estate and gift tax laws and their implications with regard to estate and financial planning.  In addition, Ms. Brasier has many years of experience handling probate matters and the administration of estates before the Registers of Wills of the various counties in the State of Maryland, as well as in the District of Columbia and in the circuit courts in Northern Virginia.

Ms. Brasier’s practice also includes the structuring and effecting of real estate and commercial transactions, tax planning associated with the formation of new business entities, the restructuring and dissolution of business entities and other commercial transactions, and the representation of individuals, non-profit organizations, and businesses before the Internal Revenue Service.  In addition, she represents lenders, homeowners and condominium associations, and other secured creditors in the prosecution of residential and commercial property foreclosure matters.  Ms. Brasier has considerable experience in lien priority issues, resolving tax liens, pursing deficiency claims, and obtaining possession of property for her clients. 

Drawing on her broad background in tax, business, and real estate law, Ms. Brasier analyzes and prepares estate plans from an inclusive viewpoint.  She ably assists her clients in substantially reducing their estate tax liability by structuring ownership of entities and creating new entities, developing gifting plans, establishing trusts, family partnerships and drafting installment sales plans for family members.  She has saved her clients millions of dollars in estate tax liability by instituting estate plans that are specifically tailored to address their needs.

Ms. Brasier is actively involved in the Suburban Maryland Estate Planning Council, the Tax and Estate Planning Sections of the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Estate and Trust Planning Section of the Prince George’s County Bar Association, as well as the Maryland State and American Bar Associations.  She has also served as the former Chairperson of the Montgomery County Bar Association’s Estates and Trusts Section.  Ms. Brasier is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, California, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.