Claudia Moncarz

I am a world traveler, mother, number lover, and a great attorney (not to toot my own horn). While admittedly I am not that humble, I am proud to be a caring friend to my clients.

I was born in Panama City, Panama but my family was not the kind to remain in one country for too long. There was too much of the world to explore. By age eight I had already lived in Panama, Mexico, and the United States. As an adult, I’ve visited numerous countries throughout Europe, South America, and Asia including China, Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam and still counting.

Even though a love of numbers runs in my family (my grandparents were accountants), I had always shied away from a career related in any way to finance. In fact, my undergraduate major was in English literature. That changed once I got to law school. One summer, I landed an internship working for a criminal judge in Miami, Florida. He quickly realized that I did not want to practice criminal law so he sent me to different divisions to serve other judges.

The week I spent in probate court changed my life. I finally learned what I wanted to do with the rest of my professional life: I was going to be a probate lawyer.

That fall, I shared my new plan with one of my professors. He advised I take a tax course, a recommendation that I reluctantly followed. Thank goodness I did. Studying tax law was like being in nirvana. My love affair with tax law began from that moment. - I guess it was meant to be. After all, it is in genes.