Letitia A. McDonald (Tish)

Tish McDonald focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis in fiduciary litigation and trust estate litigation.  A Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Tish has litigated a wide range of fiduciary disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty actions brought by beneficiaries against executors and trustees (on both sides), including financial institutions; will/trust interpretation cases; trustee removal cases; trust modification matters; contested conservatorships; trust issues in divorce cases; matters involving the appropriate measure of fiduciary compensation; cases involving the alleged failure to notify or communicate with beneficiaries; cases involving statutes of limitation with respect to actions of fiduciaries; and matters involving the alleged malfeasance of an agent under a financial power of attorney. A partner in our Trial and Global Practice Group, Tish represents trustees, executors, beneficiaries, developers, financial institutions, foundations and other non-profit entities and others in a variety of proceedings.

Past Publications

• Co-author, “Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts: Pitfalls for the Unwary Couple,” Willamette Management Associates Perspectives, 2026
• Co-author, “The State of Domestic Self-Settled Asset Protection Trusts, Willamette Management Associates Insights, 2019
• Co-author, "Emerging Issues in Fiduciary Litigation," Estate Planning Institute, 2012
• Co-author, "It's Not About the Teacups: Proper Estate Planning May Prevent Family Blowups," Atlanta Woman Magazine, 2008

Past Speaking Engagements

• Tish McDonald and Emily Newton, State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Conference, July 2025
• “Can you Trust Trusts? Implications of Using Trusts in Divorce Cases," Atlanta Bar Association, February 2016
• Tish McDonald and Jennifer Odom, “Georgia’s New Power of Attorney Act,” Georgia Bankers Association, September 2017
• “That was Then, This is Now - Examining the Consequences of Estate Planning in a Subsequent Divorce Action When the Objectives of Fiduciary and Family Law Compete," Fiduciary Law Institute, July 2015
• Tish McDonald, Craig Frankel, and Tony Turner, 2nd Annual Complex and High Asset Divorce, February 2015
• "Special Considerations in Trust and Family Business Entities", presented to Judges on the Metro-Atlanta Business Court Division for the Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia, February 2012
• "Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Malpractice Claim in the Modern Estate Planning World", Fiduciary Law Institute, July 2009