Couch White LLP

Trust and Estate Planning & Administration, Charitable Gift Planning, Business Succession Planning, Private Client Services

Partner and Chair of Trust & Estate Planning & Administration Practice Group

Katherine is the Chair of the Trust & Estate Planning & Administration practice group at Couch White. She advises clients in all areas of trusts and estates law, and provides counsel for corporate clients on business formation, governance, and succession planning services. Her trusts and estates practice focuses on creating estate plans that are custom tailored to each client’s personal and financial needs using wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare proxies.  Each estate plan is designed to protect assets, mitigate tax liability, and provide families with a plan, for both the present as well as upon death, that takes into account each family’s structure and individuality.  Katherine also represents executors in the probate and administration of estates, as well as trustees in their duties managing and distributing trust assets.  Katherine brings her experience working in the firm’s corporate group to her succession planning practice where she counsels clients regarding the transfer of the family business to relatives or key employees.  Katherine prepares corporate documents and buy-sell agreements required to achieve such transfer alongside the client’s personal estate planning, ensuring that both plans work in harmony together to meet all of the client’s objectives.

New York State Bar Association American Bar Association Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York (Past President) Empire State Youth Orchestra Board Member Katherine was named a 2023 Women on the Rise by the Albany Business Review Katherine was named a 2024 40 Under 40 Honoree by the Albany Business Review Named to the 2026 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the practice area of Trusts and Estates

State University of New York at Geneseo, B.A., 2011, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; Boston College Law School, J.D., 2014; New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2021