Nancy S. Hearne

Nancy S. Hearne
Primary Office
Overview

Nancy S. Hearne is a member of Saul Ewing's Trusts & Estates Practice. She focuses on estate and tax planning and administration, estate and guardianship disputes and the creation and continuing representation of both public and private charitable organizations. Nancy assists families with a broad range of tax and personal wealth planning issues and works with them to create plans which are often multi-generational and innovative. She has extensive experience and devotes significant time to working with families in establishing and operating private foundations. 

Nancy represents individual and corporate fiduciaries with regard to their responsibilities in the administration of trusts and estates and court matters, including probate, administration and accounting proceedings.

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She also creates, and acts as general counsel to, many public and private charitable organizations. Her practice includes advising clients on the appropriate choice of entity, acting as an advisor with regard to ongoing operations, tax matters and business transactions. She has been involved in obtaining favorable private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service.


Nancy frequently speaks at local gatherings on the subject of estate planning. Nancy and her husband, Rob, raised their five sons in Princeton, New Jersey and both she and Rob have served on the boards of several private foundations and charitable organizations in the Princeton community.


Prior to joining Saul Ewing, she was an attorney at Smith Stratton Wise Heher and Brennan, LLP, in Princeton, New Jersey and Satterlee Stephens Burke and Burke, LLP, in New York.