Lauren Zickert Quaas

Lauren Quaas is a North Carolina estate planning attorney with Carolina Family Estate Planning, where she serves as Attorney Lead. Lauren helps individuals and families protect the people and assets that matter most to them through thoughtful estate planning tailored to their circumstances, goals, and stage of life.

Her practice includes estate planning, trust planning, asset protection, elder law, and long-term care planning. Lauren works with clients ranging from young families creating their first estate plans to individuals and families with significant or complex assets, business interests, real estate holdings, and long-term care concerns. Her work includes revocable living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, inheritance protection planning, irrevocable asset protection trusts, Medicaid planning, and other planning strategies intended to address clients' individual circumstances and goals.

For parents of minor children, Lauren assists with child safeguard and guardianship planning to help families prepare for the unexpected. This includes planning for who will care for children if their parents cannot, how an inheritance for a minor child should be protected and managed, and how parents can plan for their children's care and financial well-being in the event of incapacity or death.

Lauren also counsels older adults and their families regarding incapacity, long-term care, Medicaid planning, and asset protection. She assists both clients planning proactively for possible future care needs and families addressing changing circumstances involving a loved one's health, capacity, or need for care.

Lauren particularly enjoys helping clients understand how the different pieces of their planning work together. Rather than viewing estate planning as simply the preparation of legal documents, she focuses on helping clients understand how their plan is intended to work during their lifetime, during incapacity, and after death so they can make informed decisions for themselves and their families.

In addition to her client practice, Lauren serves as Attorney Lead at Carolina Family Estate Planning. In that role, she helps lead and develop the firm's attorneys, provides guidance on complex estate planning and drafting matters, and works with the firm's legal team to maintain consistent standards for planning and document quality.