Lauren Zickert Quaas

Lauren Zickert Quaas serves as attorney lead at Carolina Family Estate Planning in Cary, North Carolina, focusing her practice on estate planning, probate and elder law. She helps individuals and families protect their crucial assets through customized strategies tailored to their unique life stages. Her practice encompasses revocable living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, asset protection and long-term care planning, benefiting a diverse clientele ranging from young parents to families with complex business holdings.

For young families, Ms. Quaas focuses on child safeguard and guardianship planning to prepare for unexpected life events. She helps parents designate trusted guardians, structure minor inheritances and ensure financial support during temporary incapacity or unexpected loss. For older adults, she provides proactive and crisis-based guidance on incapacity, Medicaid planning and asset protection, ensuring aging loved ones receive necessary care while shielding family wealth from catastrophic long-term care costs.

Rather than viewing her work as mere document preparation, Ms. Quaas prioritizes client education to demystify complex legal structures. She ensures individuals thoroughly grasp how their overall plan functions during their lifetime, throughout potential incapacity and following death. By explaining how every distinct legal instrument collaborates, she empowers families to make confident, informed decisions that preserve their legacy, protect vulnerable beneficiaries and achieve long-term peace of mind across generations.

With her background in finance and marketing from The University of Iowa's Tippie School of Business, Ms. Quaas brings deep insight into finance and management to her estate planning practice. She enrolled at Elon University Law, pursuing her legal studies, driven by her passion to make a difference in the lives of people in her community. She received her licensure to practice law in North Carolina in 2020. She also holds certification as a Dementia Certified Practitioner from The Elderlaw Firm, showcasing her dedication to serving clients dealing with dementia-related issues.