Carol Stroup |

Law Office of Carol A. Stroup

Carol Stroup | Law Office of Carol A. Stroup

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Carol has been practicing law for over 30 years. She currently has her own practice located in Foothill Ranch and focuses on estate planning, trust administration, and probate. After graduating from Pepperdine University School of Law, Carol began her legal career as a civil litigator, handling a variety of cases including personal injury, products liability, premises liability, and construction litigation. She has successfully mediated hundreds of cases and prides herself in creating careful and innovative solutions to a variety of legal issues. Carol gradually transitioned her practice from litigation and she now focuses exclusively on estate and trust matters. However, her litigation background has been invaluable in allowing her to anticipate potential problems when helping her clients design and administer their estate plans.

Carol helps her clients by designing custom estate plans, created with an emphasis on setting out a road map of instructions to guide family members through the often emotional and tumultuous months following the loss of a loved one. Promoting family harmony and preserving a lasting legacy is one of the keys to effective planning. Carol also assists her clients with getting much needed help during unexpected lifetime events such as periods of incapacity due to dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, life threatening injuries and illnesses, or other catastrophic life changing events. Finally, Carol guides clients through the often difficult and confusing trust administration process or probate, offering support during what is most often a very stressful time for family members who have recently experienced the loss of a family member.

Carol is currently a member of Wealth Counsel, a national group of over 4000 estate planning attorneys. She is a member of ProVisors and the Orange County Bar Association, with section memberships in Trusts and Estates and Solo Practice. She formerly served on the Board of Directors for Education for the Children, a nonprofit foundation supporting selected schools in the Capistrano Unified School District and the Board of Directors of Waymakers, an organization that supports and shelters Orange County youth offenders, counseling them and their families. She also was a peer court attorney advisor for the Orange County Constitutional Rights Foundation.

Carol resides in south Orange County. She is the mother of three remarkable sons, enjoys traveling both in the U.S. and internationally, is an avid reader, and loves all kinds of outdoor activities, especially in cold weather.