My parents immigrated from Taiwan in the 1970’s. Both my parents worked to support us, so when I was four months old my paternal grandmother moved in to help raise me.  As a child, I would sit near her feet as she crocheted blankets and listened to stories of our extended family and all the adventures my father got into with his eight siblings.  She taught me the importance of family and legacy.  We remained close until she passed away at the age of 103. Because of her, I have a special place in my heart for the elderly.

 

My father was a real estate agent, and before she retired my mother was a registered nurse at a VA hospital for over 40 years.  Sometimes my father would bring his clients home, and I would hear them conversing and laughing at the dinner table.  They liked him, but more importantly, they trusted him.  He was effective and experienced, and he expertly guided his clients through the process of buying their homes. Now as an attorney, I take that same caring and capable approach my father had to help my own clients achieve their real estate goals.

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Eventually, my father began to manage rental properties for some of his clients.  Soon after he bought a few investment properties of his own.  I saw how proud he was when he closed on each one and how well he cared for them.  I also saw how difficult it could be for him when the tenants did not treat the properties with that same level of respect.  Today I am a landlord myself, so I fight hard for my landlord clients because I know first-hand that their properties are not simply investments but are the physical representation of years of hard work and the means to secure their futures.

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Ten years ago, my father was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia and passed away forty days later.  It was an incredibly trying time.  But, because I am an attorney, I was able to put together his estate documents and living will.  So, when he was no longer able to speak for himself, he did not have to because we already knew his end-of-life wishes.  It made an already difficult time easier.  That was when I realized the benefit of thoughtfully planning for life’s contingencies and began incorporating trusts and estates law into my own legal practice.

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Today, I am a husband and father, and my family means the world to me.  I would do anything for them.  My loved ones, my home, my land, and my legacy - these are the people and things that I cherish.  That is why I work so hard to secure and protect those things for my clients because I know how much my clients cherish them too.   

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