Tracy A. Craig is a partner at Seder and Chandler and Chair of the firm’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group. She focuses her practice on estate planning, estate administration, prenuptial agreements, guardianships, elder law, and charitable giving.  

Tracy works with individuals in all areas of estate and gift tax planning, from testamentary estate planning and business succession planning to sophisticated lifetime leveraged gifting techniques, such as grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), intentionally defective grantor trusts, family limited liability companies and qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs).

She also specializes in estate and trust administration, prenuptial agreements, guardianships, and all aspects of charitable planning, designing charitable gifts to achieve client goals and minimize over-taxation. Tracy serves in various fiduciary capacities, including trustee, and personal representative (formerly known as executor). She also works with clients on issues facing elders.

As a highly respected lawyer, Tracy has received numerous accolades. She received an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating available for legal ability and professional ethics, and has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

Additionally, Tracy has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics every year since 2013, and included in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2019. She was selected a “Top Women of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2014. Since 2023, Tracy has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® guide for Litigation – Trusts and Estates, and Trusts and Estates.

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Bar & Court Admissions
  • Massachusetts
Education
  • Boston University School of Law, JD (1993)
  • University of Pennsylvania, BA, cum laude (1988)
Experience
  • Prepared testamentary estate plans consisting of durable powers of attorneys, health care proxies, wills, and revocable trusts
  • Prepared and implemented irrevocable insurance trusts
  • Prepared and implemented sophisticated gifting strategies, including grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATS), intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTS), domestic asset protection Trust (DAPTs), charitable remainder trusts (CRTs), charitable lead trusts (CLTs), as well as virtually all types of irrevocable trusts.
  • Negotiated and prepared prenuptial agreements for high-net-worth clients and their children
  • Administered complex estates, including the preparation of state and federal estate tax returns
  • Obtained temporary and permanent guardianships and conservatorships for incapacitated individuals, including Rogers guardianships to allow administration of antipsychotic medication
  • Prepared special needs trusts.
  • Organized and formed nonprofit/charitable entities and applied for tax-exempt status
  • Served as trustee of various irrevocable trusts
  • Advised on trust and estate issues involved with probate litigation matters, including decedent’s estates and trust administration, and the use and misuse of durable powers of attorney
  • Advised financial institutions with respect to various matters concerning trusts, estates, and durable powers of attorney
Publications/Presentations
Honors & Awards
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyer by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics (2013-present)
  • The Best Lawyers in America® (2019-present)
  • The Best Lawyers in America® guide for Litigation – Trusts and Estates, and Trusts and Estates (2023 – present)
  • “Top Women of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2014)
Professional / Community Affiliations
  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Fellow
  • Worcester Estate and Business Planning Council, Former President
  • Boston Estate Planning Council, Member
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Corporator
  • Worcester Art Museum, Corporator, Former Chair of Corporator’s Council and Corporator Nominating Committee
  • Massachusetts Bar Association, Probate Law Section
  • Worcester County Bar Association
  • ACCREDITED ESTATE PLANNER®