Lynn Caudle Boynton

About Lynn Caudle Boynton

Focusing her practice primarily on estate and trust planning, probate and trust administration, Lynn Caudle Boynton is a partner at Clifford Debelius Boynton & Hyatt, Chtd. Lynn is often appointed by the Court as a successor Personal Representative or Guardian in difficult cases due to her proven problem solving ability and her combined background in estate work as well as real estate. Lynn's office is in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Ms. Boynton has clients who come from Montgomery County and surrounding counties as well as the District of Columbia. Having considerable experience with commercial and residential real estate settlements and transactions, she is often appointed as a Trustee to sell real estate in difficult family law, civil and criminal restitution matters.ÿ Ms. Boynton is highly regarded by her colleagues for the quality of her work and follow through, and she has been given an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell.

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Ms. Boynton regularly assist clients with complete estate plans including wills,ÿ various types of revocable and irrevocable trusts, living wills, advanced medical directives, medical and/or health care and financial powers of attorney. She also has extensive experience with guardianship proceedings. In her probate and trust administration practice, Ms. Boynton provides advice and counsel to Personal Representatives (also known as executors), and successor Trustees,ÿ helping ensure that the testator's wishes are followed with respect to distributions to heirs, that all Register of Wills requirements are complied with and applicable tax returns are filed. When not representing the Personal Representative, she also represents beneficiaries during the probate or trust administration processÿ as well.

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Her real estate background spans many years of title abstracting, a large volume of settlement work during the years when she had past ownership interests in title and settlement companies, in addition to the more case specific work that she continues to do at her current firm related to estate work, court appointments as a Trustee to sell real estate, corporate work and development work.

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As an undergraduate, Ms. Boynton attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where she interned for Judge Howard Chasanow, a judge on the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1979. She attended law school at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and she was awarded her Juris Doctor in 1982. After graduation, she served a clerkship with the Honorable Judge John F. McAuliffe, who was serving as a judge on the Montgomery County Circuit Court at that time, before entering private practice. Admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, she is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

*AV?, AV Preeminent?, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell? is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell? Peer Review Rating? fall into two categories ? legal ability and general ethical standards.