Tiffany Ballenger Floyd

Personal Introduction

I grew up in southern California as an only child of two amazing parents, Patti + Norm Ballenger. Norm worked as an editor at CBS and Patti was a stay-at-home mom. Tragically, when I was 15, my father died, very suddenly, of a heart attack. Within a month, we also lost my paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother. It was a really horrible year. My family had done everything you’re supposed to with regards to their estate. They took pains to build up their savings through investing in real estate, stocks, and living within their means. They also hired an attorney put together an estate plan. Unfortunately, this estate plan didn’t work the way it should have. In the end, most of the estate was lost through issues that could have been easily avoided with better, more comprehensive, planning. I went to law school with the goal of helping families to avoid the pitfalls that my own family faced when we lost my dad & grandparents. My personal history, along with my legal training, has taught me important lessons to ensure that a family’s planning is handled in the best manner possible, with efficiency, sensitivity, and foresight. I earned my undergraduate degree from the gorgeous University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was lucky enough to live on the beach for 4 years. I received my law degree from the University of San Francisco, where I was lucky enough to live by a decidedly colder & foggier beach for another 3 years. While in law school, I clerked two different Family Law courts (in San Mateo & Alameda Counties) where I learned a valuable lesson- I detest litigation. All of the delay tactics, contention, and all-around negativity were simply not for me. Right after law school, I took and passed the California Bar exam, and then moved to Nevada to open a branch of a California Estate Planning law firm (and began studying for the Nevada Bar). Prior to opening Phillips Ballenger, I worked for law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area and Las Vegas. I’m one of the few attorneys that began their law practice in the areas of estate, business & asset protection planning, having practiced continuously in these fields since 2007. I have also been a member of Wealth Counsel, the nation’s premier estate planning organization, since that time.