Mackenzie
Hughes & Hartnett Investment Advisors LLC
Elizabeth A. Hartnett, Esq., CPA, joined Mackenzie Hughes in 2004 as
a partner with an emphasis in wealth management services. Her many areas
of expertise include family business entities, business tax and succession
planning, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, fiduciary compliance,
investment counsel, estate planning, fiduciary services and estate settlement,
as well as private foundations, charitable giving and specialty trusts
for the private client. Her clients include some of the most prominent
individuals, families, business owners, professionals, trustees, executors,
guardians, and family charitable trusts and foundations in the region.
In 1971, after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from
Syracuse University's College of Business Administration, Betsy attended
Syracuse University College of Law, where she graduated with a Juris Doctorate
in 1974. She was admitted to the New York State Bar and became a licensed
Certified Public Accountant in 1975. Betsy also manages investments through
our sister firm Mackenzie Hughes & Hartnett Investment Advisors LLC,
an Investment Advisory registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
An active member of several professional associations, Betsy is a fellow
of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and the New York
Bar Foundation. She is Vice Chair of the Crouse Hospital Board, Vice Chair
of The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, Inc. and
past Chair of the Board for Syracuse Stage. She is former Chair of the
Trusts and Estates Section of the New York Bar Association. She periodically
lectures on wealth management and estates and trusts law topics for the
New York State Bar Association and the New York State Society of Certified
Public Accountants.
As a preeminent attorney in her field, she has authored several legal
publications including the New York Practice Guide - Probate and Estate
Administration and Legal Commentaries for LexisNexis and was a contributing
writer for the Syracuse Law Review's Survey of New York Law and Warren
Heaton's on Surrogate's Courts. She currently serves as an Editorial Advisor
of the American College of Trust's and Estates Counsel's Pocket Tax Tables.
She has been listed in the Trusts and Estates Section of "Best Lawyers
in America" for 2010 and the previous fifteen years. She has also
been listed in the Estate Planning and Probate section or the New York
Super Lawyers upstate Edition, 2007-2009 and was named as one of the 25
Top Women Attorneys in the 2008 and 2009 New York Super Lawyers Upstate
Edition
In her spare time, Betsy enjoys yoga, tennis and running (including the
New York Marathon in November 2005), playing bridge with her husband,
and climbing. She also enjoys spending time with her 3 children and 8
grandchildren.
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