Christine P. Yates, a director with Tripp Scott, focuses her practice on guiding individuals and families through the full spectrum of estate planning and probate issues.  From small administrations to estates in excess of $100 million, clients receive counsel on wealth preservation techniques and matters involving estate and trust administration and distribution of assets.   

With specialization in cases involving individuals with Alzheimer's and Traumatic Brain Injury, Yates assists clients with all aspects of estate, trust and guardianship litigation, both defending and prosecuting undue influence and testamentary capacity claims, contests of wills and trusts, trust administration claims and guardianship claims.  She also prepares wills, trusts and complex estate plans and helps clients develop elder planning and guardianship issues.  Frequently appointed by the court, Yates has served the judiciary as guardian, guardian ad litem, special master, curator and administrator ad litem.

Active in the Broward County Bar Association, Yates is a member of the elder law and the real property, probate and trust law sections.  She is also a member of the Estate Planning Council of Broward County, the Florida Association of Women Lawyers and a founding member of the Professional Association for Women.

Committed to the local community, Yates is a board member and serves as secretary of the Bonnet House Inc.  She also serves on the board of directors for the Broward County Public Library Foundation and the Broward Partnership for the Homeless.  In addition, Yates is an active member of the Junior Welfare Society, P.A.W.S., the parent organization of the Humane Society, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni Association.

Yates holds a law degree from the University of Florida.  In addition, she holds master's and bachelor's degrees in business administration and finance, cum laude, from the University of Miami, where she was a member of the President's Council for academic achievement and Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board honor societies.