Partner
Phone: 610-940-4171
Email: mewsager@htts.com
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Margaret Sager's practice includes estate planning for high-net worth individuals, trust and estate administration, fiduciary litigation, guardianships of incapacitated persons, and charitable giving.
Margaret is a recognized authority on guardianships of incapacitated persons and frequently speaks on this topic and others at universities, professional meetings, and bar associations across the country, including the prominent Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning.
Margaret is the author of Guardianships of Incapacitated Persons, the leading Pennsylvania state legal treatise on this area of the law, which includes information on the process and the relevant statutory and case law. She also co-authored, with partner Martin Heckscher the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Attorneys' Fees, Fiduciaries, Commissions, and Costs , the leading legal compendium on these issues related to trusts, estates, and guardianships in Pennsylvania.
Margaret has been listed as one of the leading trust and estate attorneys by The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal Intelligencer, Worth Magazine, Philadelphia's Best Lawyers, and Philadelphia Magazine. Margaret has also received the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.
Margaret is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). She is a past Chair and current member of its Fiduciary Litigation and Professional Responsibility Committees. After completing professional training in probate mediation, she also served on ACTEC's Arbitration Task Force, which analyzed and produced a report and recommendations on the use of arbitration in trust and estate matters.
Margaret is a past Chair of the Probate & Trust Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association as well as the Section's Rules and Practice Committee. Her professional memberships include the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, including its Probate & Trust Law Section, as well as the Montgomery and Philadelphia Bar Associations, and their Probate Sections. She is also active in Philadelphia Estate Planning Council activities.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Charitable Planning
- Estate Administration
- Estate Planning
- Fiduciary Litigation
- Trusts
EDUCATION
- University of Virginia School of Law School, J.D. (1985)
- University of Richmond, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1982)
ADMISSIONS
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Chair, Probate and Trust Law Section (2000)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Montgomery County Bar Association
- Philadelphia Estate Planning Council
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (1999 - present)
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Top 100 Attorneys, Worth Magazine (2005 – 2007)
- Best Lawyers in America (1999 - present)
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2004 – present)
