- Name
- Jeffrey Helsdon
- Company
- Oldfield & Helsdon, PLLC
- E-mail
- Contact Jeffrey Helsdon (Oldfield & Helsdon, PLLC)
- Website
- http://www.tacomalawfirm.com
- Office Phone
- (866) 309-1031
- Cell Phone
- (253) 677-1031
- Alt. Phone
- (253) 512-1031
- Fax
- (253) 414-3500
- Address
- 1401 Regents Blvd., Suite 102, Fircrest, WA, 98466
- Description
- Mr. Helsdon has over 20 years of experience in complex transactions and Section 1031 exchanges as part of his real estate law practice.
About Us:
Jeff was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, he obtained his J.D. degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1987.
Mr. Helsdon was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1987, to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in 1990 and to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1998, before which he successfully argued the seminal case Tri-State Development, Ltd. v. Johnston, 160 F.3d 528 (9th Cir. 1998) in which the Ninth Circuit held that the Washington pre-judgment attachment statute was unconstitutional as applied to real property.
Mr. Helsdon practices law in the areas of complex real estate and commercial transactions, land use, and real estate and commercial litigation. He has served as an Exchange Accommodator for tax-free exchanges under § 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code for over 17 years. He was the first Certified Exchange Specialist® in the South Puget Sound.
Jeff and his wife Cheri, a veterinary technician, make their home in Gig Harbor, Washington with their son Jason, a junior at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Their daughter Darcie is a 2005 graduate of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, and shows dogs professionally with her husband, Anthony Cantor from their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Helsdon breed and show Doberman Pinschers. They are very active in the Doberman Pinscher Club of America, which Mr. Helsdon has served as a Director, Legislative Director, and Delegate to the American Kennel Club. Mr Helsdon was awarded the Doberman Pinscher Club of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Jeff and Cheri are active in their parish, St. John's Episcopal Church in Gig Harbor, Washington, where Jeff serves as a Delegate to the Olympia Diocesan Convention, Eucharistic Minister, Lay Reader and has served on the Parish Vestry.
In 1993, Mr. Helsdon became aware of the attempt in King County, Washington to pass a breeder license and mandatory sterilization bill patterned after the ordinance in San Mateo, California.
In 1994, he was appointed as Special Counsel to the Bankruptcy Liquidating Trustee for the B & I Shopping Center, where he assisted the Trustee in her efforts to rebuff the pressure of the animal extremist movement to exploit the famous gorilla, Ivan, and to assist the Trustee in finding a suitable home for him.
Since that time, Mr. Helsdon has been actively involved in legislative efforts in the State of Washington and elsewhere to protect and preserve the sport of pure-bred dogs and dog breeding from the onslaught of the animal extremism movement.
Areas of Expertise
Jeffrey P. Helsdon is the first Certified Exchange Specialist® in the South Puget Sound area of Western Washington. Mr. Helsdon was one of the first Exchange Accommodators to receive the CES® designation from the Federation of Exchange Accommodators, the national trade association for exchange accommodators, of which Olympic Exchange Accommodators, LLC is a proud member.
Mr. Oldfield is a law partner of Mr. Helsdon in the lawfirm of Oldfield and Helsdon, PLLC. Mr. Oldfield is the former Supervisor of Banking for the state of Washington.
We think that you deserve more than a rote effort to prepare form documents for you. You have too much at stake to leave your exchange in the hands of lower-level employees of title companies - no matter how "expert" they may seem to be.
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