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Catharine Fairley is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ practitioner with the Draper McGinley Planning Group, as well as a CPA with Draper & McGinley, PA. Catharine graduated from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, Summa Cum Laude, and moved to the United States in 1987. She has over 24 years of experience in providing financial, tax and investment planning advice as well as assisting local attorneys with the tax and financial planning aspects of divorce. She is collaboratively trained in divorce settlements as a financial neutral. She served on the board of the Maryland Society of the Institute for Certified Financial Planners and is currently a member of the Financial Planning Association and its National Capital Area group, as well as the MACPA and the AICPA. She is currently a board member of Frederick Mutual Insurance Company, a local property and casualty insurance carrier and of the Carroll Creek Rotary Club. Ms. Fairley has had several articles on planning topics published and has been profiled in the New York Times for a family money makeover. She is currently a regular tax columnist for the Frederick News Post Business Week and speaks regularly to various groups in the area on financial and tax planning matters. She is married with 3 children and lives in Frederick, MD.