Louisiana Estate and Financial Planning —that’s what we do
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About Covell & Covell

Stephen E. Covell
Mr. Covell has practiced law for over 34 years in the Baton Rouge and Covington areas. He is a partner in the law firm of Covell & Covell and concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and financial planning as well as successions and probate litigation. He is also Of Counsel to the Baton Rouge law firm of Carleton Hebert and Shoenfelt. Mr. Covell has drafted more than 4,000 wills and trusts in his practice. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in 1975. He is a frequent speaker in the estate planning field for corporate sponsored groups and also teaches estate planning seminars sponsored by the National Business Institute for lawyers’ continuing legal education requirements. Mr. Covell is a Series 65 Registered Investor Advisor Representative and is licensed to provide financial and investment advice to his clients. He is co-author of the Louisiana Legal Advisor which is a popular book on Louisiana law written for the layman, now in its 5th edition.
Lauren K. Covell
Lauren Killebrew Covell is a Baton Rouge native having graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and Louisiana State University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1976 and became a staff attorney for the Department of Health and Human Resources. She devotes a great deal of time to pro bono work and is the recipient of the 2005 Baton Rouge Bar David A. Hamilton Pro Bono Award and the 2006 LSBA Pro Bono Award. Mrs. Covell is a recognized authority on Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO) and helped draft a statute (La. R.S. 9:2801B) to benefit Louisiana attorneys and their clients who were attempting to modify an earlier judgment to obtain a QDRO or other non-ERISA Order to partition work benefits between former spouses. Mrs. Covell has been appointed by courts in several jurisdictions with the responsibility of drafting impartial proposed QDROs for the Court to execute before submission to the respective Plan Administrators for approval and implementation as qualified domestic relations orders.
The following are a few of the unsolicited, written thank-you notes we have received.