Letitia M. Maxfield

Letitia M. Maxfield is a Colorado estate planning lawyer and partner at Wade Ash LLC who focuses on probate, trust and estate administration, litigation, guardianships, and conservatorships. She guides clients through routine administrations and disputed proceedings while helping them understand available options. She represents individuals, families, and professional fiduciaries in complex matters and proceedings. She approaches each case by listening closely, identifying practical goals, and protecting legal interests through negotiation, mediation, depositions, hearings, or trial.

Letitia earned her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2011. She earned her B.A. from Knox College in 2005. She was admitted to practice in Colorado in 2011. She has focused on trust and estate work since her first attorney position, where she prepared complex estate and tax plans. She later expanded her practice into contested trust and estate matters and probate-related litigation for clients.

Letitia regularly represents professional fiduciaries and family members administering complex estates and trusts or resolving disputes. She helps clients navigate guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, probate administration, trust controversies, and elder law concerns. She works to identify creative resolutions while remaining prepared for contested hearings and multi-day trials. She also provides expert witness services involving trust and estate issues, including fiduciary standards of care, fees, beneficiary rights, and attorney professional responsibilities.

Letitia M. Maxfield is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and contributes to Colorado trust, estate, and elder law policy. She has served in leadership roles within the Colorado Bar Association, including work involving legislative policy, elder law, electronic wills, and right-to-counsel issues. She also lectures at continuing legal education programs, sharing practical insight on probate, fiduciary duties, ethics, and disputed estate matters with peers.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Wade Ash LLC
• Member, Colorado Bar Association, Elder Law Section
• Fellow, The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)

Licensed State

• Colorado

Education

• University of Denver Sturm College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Knox College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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