Rachel Boyd
(Karen's Assistant)
rachel.boyd@fmjlaw.com
As an estate planning attorney, Karen Schlotthauer is driven to deliver an exceptional client experience. She is well-versed in what clients need: high-quality legal representation, creative solutions, and great customer service. Karen counsels and advises clients on all aspects of estate planning, from basic to complex matters, and she helps clients with all of their estate planning needs, including wills, trusts, pet trusts, charitable planning, retirement plan distribution planning, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, guardianships and conservatorships, and estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax strategies. In addition, a significant part of her practice involves estate and trust administration matters, including representing individual fiduciary clients with the preparation and filing of estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns, and advocating for beneficiaries involved in contested administrations.
Prior to joining FMJ, Karen was a shareholder at a firm in downtown Minneapolis and a principal in a Wayzata firm. She has frequently been a guest speaker and writer on the topic of estate planning for various organizations around the Twin Cities.
University of Minnesota (B.S. Business, Carlson School of Management)
William Mitchell College of Law (J.D.)
Minnesota
“I love learning about my clients’ unique situations and individual stories because everyone has differing estate planning needs. To be effective, it is important that I listen carefully, evaluate strategies, and come up with a creative approach to make sure my clients implement an estate plan that meets their goals in the future. No matter what level of sophistication is required, I pride myself on explaining complex topics in plain English. I’ve even been told that I make the process fun!”
Karen is not only fluent in legalese, but she is pretty good at giving unsolicited advice to her two sons. She lives in the west metro and is a noted outdoor enthusiast who only puts away her inline skates when the ski season starts. She feels lucky that her book club has not enforced a reading requirement to maintain her membership.
