Tanya L. Butler, TEP

Tanya’s practice focuses on private client work in estates and trusts, including probate, administration, and estate litigation. Tanya advises executors, trustees, representatives, guardians, and people caring for the needs of others under a power of attorney or a personal directive. Tanya also shepherds clients through often hotly contested estate litigation, including will challenges, passing of accounts, fiduciary litigation, will interpretation, and dependants’ relief claims.

Tanya holds the designation of TEP (Trusts and Estate Practitioner) from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She serves on STEP Canada’s conference programming committee and she sat on STEP Atlantic’s Executive Committee in different capacities for almost a decade. She is the past Chair of the Nova Scotia Wills, Estates, & Trusts Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA). She is a member of the Halifax Estate Planning Council, a past lecturer at the CBA National Will, Estate, and Trust Fundamentals Course for Estate Practitioners, and past member of the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Forum for Estates & Trusts Practitioners. She currently sits on an ad hoc bench and bar liaison committee focused on improving court procedures for estate litigation in Nova Scotia.

Tanya is from the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and studied English literature at Acadia University and Queen’s University (Kingston), before taking a law degree at the University of New Brunswick. In her spare time, she is an indifferent runner, a dogged yoga practitioner, and a passionate fan of Scandinavian murder mysteries.