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Roxanna Hammett is a member of the Trusts and Estates and Tax Groups at Wolff & Samson.

Roxy’s practice focuses on all aspects of estate planning, including the drafting of wills, trust agreements, powers of attorney, living wills and all other estate planning documents. She advises individuals and families on techniques for the transfer of assets to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes. She represents executors and trustees with regard to the administration of estates and trusts, including the preparation of all necessary state and federal estate, gift and inheritance tax returns, and helps clients with issues regarding probate, distributions to beneficiaries and fiduciary duties.

Roxy speaks frequently at seminars on estate planning, including those sponsored by the Divorce Education Center of New Jersey, CIGNA, CFG, Inc., J.H. Cohn, LLP, the Denville Community Church, Franciscan Oaks and Wolff & Samson, as well as at meetings of the Manhattan Twins Club and the Rockaway Rotary Club. In addition to appearing on the Essex County Bar Association’s “Ask a Lawyer” program, she served as a panelist at the “Administering the Modest Estate: Challenges and Solutions” seminar sponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE).

Roxy contributed to David L. Schlossberg’s article, “New IRS Letter Ruling for Loan Guarantors,” published in the New Jersey Law Journal. She and John H. Skarbnik co-authored “Estate Tax Repeal Adds Uncertainty to Estate Planning,” published in The Real Estate Tax Digest. She co-authored, with Stephen Ferszt and Austin Lilling, “Recent Rulings on Trusts as Beneficiaries of IRAs and Qualified Plans May Necessitate Changes to Estate Plans,” published in the New Jersey Law Journal. She also contributed to two New Jersey Law Journal articles, “When a Decedent’s Estate is in the Chain of Title,” with Richard Gelfond, and “Protect Trust Assets from a Child’s Poor Decisions While Avoiding the GST Tax,” with Stephen Ferszt and Shannon Keim. She has an AV® rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Roxy is a cum laude graduate of Cornell University Law School and received the Joseph Weintraub Memorial Scholarship. She volunteered in the Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program and was a member of the Women’s Law Association. She earned her undergraduate degree from Drew University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the dean’s list. While at Drew University, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society), the Drew Scholars program, the French Club, Le Journal Français, Drew Law Journal and the Judicial Board.