Tessa Yamashiro
Attorney, care planning for parents
Tessa helps the sons and daughters who are coordinating a parent’s care, often from another island.
Bar, courts and schooling
Bar admissions
Hawaii
2021
Courts
Hawaii state courts
2021
Education
J.D.
2020
B.A.
2016
Languages
English
Japanese
Conversational
Memberships
Hawaii State Bar Association
Reading the folder before the call
Tessa came to elder law after helping her own grandparents through a hospital stay on a weekend, with no papers and no one sure who could sign. She remembers how many calls it took, and she designs the firm’s care plans so a family needs fewer.
Most of her clients are adult children who live across an ocean from a parent. She reads the folder of papers before the first call, sends back a short list of what’s missing, and holds the family meeting by video so everyone can be on it.
Plan with Tessa, wherever you live
Send us what you have, even if it’s a shoebox. She’ll read it first.