Kari C. Stonelake-Hopkins

Attorney |kstonelake-hopkins@dunlaplaw.com

Kari advises and assists clients in all estate planning matters, including the preparation of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, irrevocable tax planning trusts, and family business succession planning. She has substantial probate experience, including administering decedents’ estates and handling guardianship/conservatorship matters.  In addition, she advises clients regarding the administration of trusts.

She also represents clients in disputes among family members, beneficiaries and fiduciaries, and professional advisers. While considering the emotional and personal implications for those involved, she assists clients in resolving estate and trust litigation disputes, including incapacity, mistake and undue influence claims, breach of fiduciary claims and will and trust construction matters.

Ms. Stonelake-Hopkins has successfully represented her clients in both trial and appellate courts.

Kari has served as a board member for Rochester Area Habitat for Humanity and PossAbilities of Southern Minnesota.  She is the president of the Ronald McDonald House of Rochester board of trustees and a member of the Rochester Montessori School Board.

Professional:
Minnesota State Bar Association
Olmsted County Bar Association
North Dakota Law Review Board, 1997-1998
Order of Barristers, Selected 1998
North Dakota Supreme Court Law Clerk, 1998-1999
Assistant Burleigh County State’s Attorney, 1999-2000

Education:
University of North Dakota (J.D., 1998, with distinction)
Gonzaga University (B.A., 1995, cum laude)

Admissions:
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
US District Court for the District of Minnesota