Willemien Dingemans Miller
Director
Willemien Dingemans Miller is a highly experienced attorney who has focused her practice exclusively in all aspects of Trust and Estate Planning and Administration, guiding individuals and families through the estate planning and administration process.
Email: wdmiller@drm.com
Phone: 603-448-2211
Direct: 603-442-4520
Practices & Industries
Experienced trust and estates attorney counseling clients to attain their goals.
Willemien Dingemans Miller helps clients achieve their estate planning goals while navigating state, federal, and international taxation issues. With her extensive knowledge and experience, Willemien quickly understands each client’s unique situation and is adept at providing sound legal advice and practical and innovative strategies to reach their objectives.
Working with clients to understand and define goals and concerns, she identifies alternative opportunities for her clients to consider to enable them to make informed decisions when putting together a customized and comprehensive estate plan, minimizing gift, estate and generation skipping transfer taxes. Willemien has successfully guided many families through the often complicated and emotional process of administering the estate and trust after the death of a family member, including the preparation of estate tax returns and distribution of assets. Willemien enjoys hiking and travel in addition to tending her flower garden and pursuing other creative outlets.
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, LLM, with honors
University of Nijmegen School of Law, The Netherlands, J.D., with honors
Experience
- Has helped individuals and families who own their own business sort through the trust, estate, and business planning issues that arise in the disposition and/or succession planning for the business.
- Advises high-net-worth clients regarding gift and estate tax planning techniques and asset protection strategies.
- Advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries on their rights and obligations.
- Works with families to develop practical legal solutions for long-term ownership of vacation properties in the United States and foreign countries.
- Provides advice helping clients implement their charitable goals.
- Regularly advises clients regarding how best to structure US ownership of anticipated large foreign gifts and inheritances and helps implement new ownership structures.
- Has guided many individuals and families in complicated and diverse family and marriage situations through the difficult estate planning process, resulting in the implementation of effective estate plans that accomplish the goals of the clients.
- Consults with clients to define and implement goals in protecting assets for the benefit of disabled and spendthrift beneficiaries.
Admissions
Vermont, 1989
New Hampshire, 1994
Memberships & Activities
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Fellow since 2000
Vermont State Chair for ACTEC from March 2005-March 2010 and March 2020-March 2025
Vermont Bar Association
New Hampshire Bar Association: Elder Law, Estate Planning and Probate Section
Connecticut Valley Estate planning Council
American Bar Association: Probate and Trust Law Section; Real Estate, Probate and Property Section
Accolades & Awards
Listed in Best Lawyers®, Trust and Estates, 2008-2025
Selected by peers for recognition in the area of trusts and estates in Best Attorneys® in New Hampshire, and New England Super Lawyers since 2008.
Recognized by her peers in Chambers USA
Community Involvement
Ledyard Financial Group, Inc./Ledyard National Bank, Member of Board of Directors
Prior Board and Committee membership: VPR, Fairbanks Museum, Lebanon Opera House, Vermont Public Company
Publications
Willemien Dingemans-Miller & Christopher Stoneman, Estate Planning for Owners of Closely Held Business Interests, Tax Management Portfolio Estate, Gifts and Trusts Series No. 809-1st (Bureau of National Affairs, 2001)
Presentations
Lectured and participated in panel discussions for the Vermont Bar Association, the New Hampshire Bar Association, the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, and private groups on a wide range of trust and estate planning topics.
Languages
Dutch