Mona Brown B.A., LL.B, C.ARB., TEP

Mona Brown’s preferred areas of practice are tax planning, agricultural law, wills & estate planning, corporate and commercial law, real estate matters, family law, municipal law and cottage succession planning. Mona grew up on a farm in Southern Manitoba, she and her husband farm at Sperling. Mona chose to practice law in Carman for the last 39 years and to focus on farm and small business tax and succession planning. She enjoys helping her clients solve issues such as "how to transition the farm or small business to the next generation while being fair to the other children" and "planning effectively for tax and family law". She loves the challenge of helping develop a unique solution for each family. She works collaboratively with her client's accountants, financial planners, insurance, and other advisors as "collaboration is imperative to make a comprehensive client centered succession plan". She says "the money we can save by using simple and legal tax planning solutions gives the client more options. It's better to have the tax saving in the client's jeans than the governments." An estate plan often involves corporate reorganizations with family trusts; estate freezes or moving assets to new corporations commonly referred to as "butterfly". Mona enjoys working closely with tax expert Andrew Winkless who has been in the Carman office for 11 years.