Victoria M. Heuston

Victoria Heuston advises institutional and individual fiduciaries and beneficiaries on fiduciary disputes and complex trust and estate administrations, helping clients resolve conflicts and carry out their responsibilities with confidence. Based in Tampa, she brings together dispute resolution and administration counsel as part of Holland & Knight's private wealth services practice.

Victoria's work spans both sides of the fiduciary relationship. She counsels trustees and other fiduciaries who manage complex trusts and estates, as well as beneficiaries who hold an interest in them, and helps clients address disagreements before and after they escalate into formal disputes.

Her grounding in trusts and estates began before law school, when she gained experience in the field while working at another law firm. Victoria graduated first in her law school class and joined the Firm after serving as a summer associate in its Tampa office.

She also brings meaningful judicial experience to her practice. Victoria was a Florida Supreme Court Fellow for Justice Jorge Labarga and externed with Judge John M. Harris of the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. During law school, she was a staff editor for the Florida State University Law Review and the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, a research assistant to Professor Rima Nathan, president of the Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Society and an intern with the Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic.

That combination of appellate insight and early immersion in trust and estate law helps Victoria give clients clear, practical guidance in sensitive fiduciary matters.