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Victoria Fiengo is an Associate in Wiggin and Dana’s Private Client Services Department in the New York office, where she focuses her practice on estate planning and trust and estate administration.

Before joining Wiggin and Dana, Victoria represented U.S. and international individuals and families with sophisticated estates and personal estate planning, including the planning and preparation of wills, various types of trust indentures, prenuptial agreements, tax planning, and charitable giving.

Victoria was a Wiggin and Dana Summer Associate in June 2018. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where she received a Dean’s Scholarship. She also has a Master in Bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Victoria received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

What is Guardianship?

Guardianship is a legal arrangement whereby an individual is granted the legal authority to make decisions on behalf of another person who is deemed unable to make those decisions independently. Most commonly, this applies to minor children whose parents are deceased, but this also applies to incapacitated adults.

Guardianship law serves as