Charity Anastasio, Attorney at Law, PLLC

I started in Estate Planning in 2006, as an intern at SeniorLAW Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where I drafted estate planning documents for elderly clients, as well as assisted clients in probate, deed transfers, consumer protection, protection from abuse and financial exploitation, contractor disputes, and landlord-tenant disputes.

I returned to Seattle and joined the First Responder Will Clinic (formerly Wills for Heroes) as a law clerk, board member, and then attorney. The First Responder Will Clinic is part of the WSBA Washington Young Lawyers Division and drafts wills, power of attorneys, and advance health care directives for firefighters and police officers for free, in recognition of the risks they take to protect our communities.

I have street smarts. Law was not my first career: I spent years working in bakeries and kitchens, waiting tables and serving people before I graduated with my Bachelors Degree. Then I spent three years working at Washington State Employees Credit Union, where I helped people plan how they would protect their assets and acquire loans, deal with fraud on their accounts, and plan for the future. Estate planning was a natural progression from this.

I am a real person helping real people with serious life decisions. I bring my compassion and common sense to every situation, as well as my expertise in the law. What is most important in my practice is that my clients feel listened to and responded to in a timely, meaningful, and successful way.

I enjoy spending time with family and friends and talking politics over a good meal. I am also a movie connoisseur, art enthusiast, international traveler, cook, bicyclist, and prodigious fiction reader.