Elizabeth A. Garlovsky

Elizabeth "Lizzy" A. Garlovsky helps business owners, individuals and multigenerational families protect and transfer wealth, plan for business and family succession, and navigate complex trust and estate matters. She advises clients on estate planning, wealth transfer strategies, business succession planning, trust and probate estate administration, and fiduciary disputes, bringing perspectives gained from private practice, government service and wealth management.

Lizzy designs and implements sophisticated estate planning and wealth transfer strategies tailored to each client's unique goals and circumstances. She advises on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, charitable giving strategies, trust structures and multigenerational wealth transfers, helping clients preserve assets, minimize tax exposure and achieve long-term family and legacy objectives.

She regularly represents founders, entrepreneurs, and owners of closely held and family-owned businesses, helping them integrate business succession planning into broader estate and legacy plans. Clients often turn to Lizzy as a long-term adviser on family wealth and succession matters, relying on her to address the legal, financial and practical considerations that affect business continuity and family relationships.

A key aspect of Lizzy's practice is coordinating complex planning strategies among the professionals involved in a client's affairs. She works closely with family office professionals, financial advisers, accountants, trustees, corporate fiduciaries and other advisers to help ensure estate plans are implemented effectively and remain aligned with evolving family, business and financial objectives.

Lizzy also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries in the administration of trusts, probate estates and related fiduciary matters, including disputes and contested proceedings both in and out of court. She also represents heirs, legatees and beneficiaries seeking to protect their rights in probate and trust matters.

Her background in private practice, the public sector and wealth management gives her a practical perspective on the legal, financial and personal dimensions of trusts and estates matters. Recognizing that these issues often arise during periods of transition, uncertainty and loss, Lizzy provides clear guidance and practical solutions to help clients move forward with confidence.

Before joining Holland & Knight, she practiced at a national law firm, where she advised clients on private wealth planning and trust and estate administration matters.