ANDRÉE R. CHICHA

Phone:  425.454.3374
Fax:  425.454.0087
Email: achicha@hansonbaker.com
Legal Assistant: Anne Burt – aburt@hansonbaker.com

PRACTICE EMPHASIS AND EXPERIENCE

• Estate Planning
             Business Succession Planning
             Gift and Tax Planning
             Prenuptial Agreements
             Probate and Estate Settlement
             Wills and Trusts
             Guardianships
• Real Estate
• General Business

Andrée's practice focuses on estate planning, estate settlement, and real estate and business transactions.  She works with clients at all financial levels involving both simple and complex estates and business matters. She represents owners with significant real estate or business holdings who have potential risk of estate tax liability.  Andrée assists such clients in developing an estate plan and/or business succession plan designed to reduce estate tax liability and facilitate the orderly transfer of real estate and business interests by lifetime gifting, sale at retirement and/or transfers after death.

EDUCATION

J.D., Gonzaga University, summa cum laude, 1987
      Associate Editor, Gonzaga Law Review
      Order of the Barristers
      Thomas More Scholarship
Teacher Certification, Gonzaga University, 1983
B.A., Gonzaga University, cum laude, 1970
Phi Alpha Theta, Historical Honor Society
Academic Scholarships, 1968-1970

ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS

Presenter: "Estate Administration," Probate for Paralegals, King County Bar Association Seminar, 2002
Presenter: "Foundations of Estate Administration Defined," and "Considerations for Collecting the Assets, Preparing the Inventory and Handling Claims against the Estate," Estate Administration Procedures, National Business Institute Seminar, 2006.
Presenter: "Making Sense of Confusing State and Federal Legislation Changes," and "Overcoming the Most Troubling Valuation Problems of an Estate," National Business Institute Seminar, 2007.

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

East King County Bar Association, Member
King County Bar Association, Member
Washington State Bar Association, Member
Estate Planning Council of Seattle
East King County Estate Planning Council
Youth Eastside Services, Board of Trustees (1993 to present)
Northwest School for the Hearing Impaired, pro bono legal counseling
Hale Halewai 'o Hawaii, volunteer

BAR / COURT ADMISSIONS

Admitted to Washington, 1987
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Washington
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

PERSONAL

Andrée enjoys dancing and teaching hula, golf, needlework, reading and travel.