Kirsten is a cross-border estate lawyer at Polaris Tax Counsel where she focuses on cross-border estate planning and administration. Kirsten regularly advises on all aspects of estate planning and incapacity planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, representation agreements for healthcare, committeeship applications, and other tools to minimize taxes on death and to effectively provide for beneficiaries. She also advises executors and administrators on probate and estate administration.

Since 2015, Kirsten has acted as an instructor for the Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C., in the areas of Will drafting, estate planning and estate administration. She is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association’s Wills & Trusts and Elder Law subsections.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia in 2004 and received her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Victoria in 2008.