Schroth, Peter W.

Helen C. Heintz is Counsel in the Private Client Services Department at Wiggin and Dana. Ms. Heintz advises clients regarding tax-efficient gift and estate planning. She also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries regarding all aspects of trust and estate administration, including taxation and fiduciary law. She routinely represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries before the Surrogate's Courts and Probate Courts in a variety of matters including probate proceedings, fiduciary appointments and removal, guardianship proceedings, accounting proceedings and contested matters.

Ms. Heintz received her B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York. During law school, she served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.

Ms. Heintz is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and the Trusts and Estates Section of the New York State Bar Association, as well as the American Bar Association. Before joining Wiggin and Dana, she practiced law in New York City for five years.