Sara Goldman Curley

Representative Experience

• Designing estate plans for individuals and families to meet their individual needs and goals, which may include using sophisticated strategies designed to minimize estate and gift taxes, and probate avoidance
• Advising professional and family personal representatives (executors) and trustees in the administration of estates and trusts
• Preparing complex estate tax returns involving business and real estate valuation issues, and representing fiduciaries in estate tax audits with taxing authorities
• Representing and advising guardians and conservators of incapacitated adults

Sara is involved in a number of organizations, including:

• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Fellow
• New England Law | Boston, former member of the Board of Trustees
• Boston Bar Association, member; Boston Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Section, former co-chair; former co-chair of Education Committee (2017-2018) and former co-chair of Estate Planning Committee, co-chair (2015-2017)
• REBA’s Estate Planning, Trusts and Estate Administration Committee, former co-chair
• SJC Law Clerks’ Society, member
• Boston Estate Planning Council, member
• Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum, member
• Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, former member of the Board of Directors
• National Association of Estate Planners & Councils, Accredited Estate Planner (AEP)

Before attending law school, Sara was a budget analyst for the Massachusetts State Senate Committee on Ways and Means, where she continued to work as a legal intern while attending law school at night. During law school, Sara was also a technical coordinating editor of the New England Law Review. Prior to joining Nutter, Sara served as a law clerk for the Honorable Roderick L. Ireland of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.