Casey Carruth-Hinchey
Casey A. Carruth-Hinchey has been an associate of the firm since 2012, where she focuses on estate planning, and related tax planning and reporting. She enjoys helping clients craft thoughtful estate plans that achieve their goals while minimizing unnecessary administrative burdens. In addition to wills, general powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and disposition of remains documents, she regularly drafts community property agreements and a wide variety of trusts, both revocable and irrevocable, such as community property trusts and qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs). She is also experienced in implementing complex gift and sale transactions.
A significant portion of Casey’s practice is dedicated to preparing gift tax returns and estate tax returns for the firm’s clients, where she brings years of expertise to this specialized field of tax reporting.
Casey serves as Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Estate Planning and Probate Law Section of the Alaska Bar Association. She is also a member of the Anchorage Estate Planning Council, the Anchorage Bar Association, and the Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers.
Born and raised in Anchorage, Casey returned permanently after receiving her J.D. from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. While in law school, she was a primary editor on the editorial board of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy and participated in the school’s Intellectual Property & Nonprofit Organizations Clinic. She spent her law school summers in Alaska, interning for U.S. District Court Judge John W. Sedwick, Judge Sharon Gleason (then presiding judge of the Alaska Superior Court), and the Municipality of Anchorage Legal Department (Civil Division). Casey received her bachelor’s degree in art history and a minor in classics from Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Outside of work she enjoys Alaska’s natural beauty and Anchorage’s arts and cultural offerings as much as possible—when her nose is not buried in a book, that is. Casey is a classical music enthusiast, especially chamber and choral music. She serves on the board of the Sitka Music Festival and is a past board member of the Anchorage Concert Chorus. She joined her first choir in high school (the UAA University Singers) and now sings with the Anchorage Concert Chorus. Her most memorable choral experiences include performing at Carnegie Hall with the Anchorage Concert Chorus and recording music for movie trailers in classic Hollywood studios such as the Capital Records Building. Casey loves flying with her dad in his 1946 J-3 Piper Cub and has been trying to keep up with him on downhill skis since age 2.