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Emma H. Barry

Emma H. Barry

Counsel | Atlanta, GA

Emma Barry focuses her practice on Special Needs Trust matters and other aspects of comprehensive Special Needs Estate Planning.

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Emma Barry 

Emma Barry focuses her practice on Special Needs Trust matters and other aspects of comprehensive Special Needs Estate Planning. Emma has worked with Kristen M. Lewis, Esq. in her Special Needs Estate Planning practice since graduating from Georgia State University College of Law in 2016. She has extensive experience representing clients in guardianship and conservatorship proceedings in Probate Courts throughout Georgia, including inter and intra-state transfers of guardianships and conservatorships, as well as conservatorship planning in the context of a settlement.

Emma serves as a Children’s Legacy Advisor for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She has also served on the boards of nonprofits that work to support persons with disabilities (most recently, Better Living Together, Inc.).

Emma is from Atlanta and attended Woodward Academy. Emma, her husband, and their two children live in Dunwoody. In her free time, she loves enjoying the outdoors with her husband, daughter, and son and having singing/instrument jam sessions with their family “band.”

 

 

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Capabilities

Estate Planning

Estate & Trust Administration

Guardianship & Conservatorship

Special Needs

Speeches & Publications

Presenter, State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Section, Basic Fiduciary Law 201 Seminar (2023)

Co-Presenter, Stetson University National Conference on Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts (2018, 2019)

Admissions

Georgia

Education

Georgia State University College of Law, J.D.

Davidson College, B.A.

Woodward Academy

Awards & Honors

Selected to participate in American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Southeast Fellows Institute

Selected to participate in Philanthropic Advisors Leadership Institute, a program of the Philanthropic Advisor Partnership (a collaboration of Community Foundation For Greater Atlanta, Atlanta Jewish Foundation, and United Way of Greater Atlanta)

Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America since 2021

Organizations

Center for the Visually Impaired, Board Member (2024 – Present)Better Living Together, Inc., Board Member (2023 – Present)
State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Section
State Bar of Georgia, Elder Law Section
Academy of Special Needs Planners, Member
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Member
American Bar Association, Member