Practice Areas:

Corporate/Business

• Company Formation and Business Planning
• Taxation

Estate Planning and Administration

• Sophisticated Planning Techniques for Wealth Management
• Estate Planning
• Wills and Trusts
• Probate

Charitable Foundations/Exempt Organizations

Education:

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law. L.L.M., Taxation
• University of Toledo, J.D.
• Miami University, B.S., Finance

Bar & Court Admissions/Memberships:

• Wayne County Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association (member, Trust and Probate Law Section) as a specialist
• American Bar Association (member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section)

Corporate & Civic Involvement:

• Wayne-Holmes Estate Planning Council
• Wooster Noon Lions Club
• Main Street Wooster, Inc. (current President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
• West View Manor (Board Member)

Publications and Lectures:

• Roger D. Proper, Jr. & Matthew R. Hochstetler, To Be, or Not to Be: "Contingent" Claims Under R.C. § 2117.37, 21 Ohio Prob. L.J. 241 (July/Aug. 2011).