Clare was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, she was a bookkeeper for over 25 years in the construction industry. She then moved to the Long Neck area in 2007 to run her own Scrapbook Store in Bethany Beach. After closing the store in 2012, she went back to bookkeeping for a builder in Lewes, then worked five years as a tax accountant for an accounting firm in Milford, Delaware. In 2018, she joined Sergovic Carmean Weidman McCartney & Owens, PA.  She is a real estate paralegal.  In addition, she handles the administration of SOPB Exchangors, LLC, a qualified intermediary company that facilitates IRS Section 1031 like kind exchanges. She sits on the Board for Compassionate Hearts, Inc and lives in Millsboro with her husband Chris.

George B. (Buck) Smith, Esquire, is a practicing Delaware attorney since 1982. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Tax Court. A graduate of St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, Delaware, the University of Delaware (B.Sc. Accounting), and the Widener University School of Law (J.D.), Buck worked for the Internal Revenue Service for eleven years, first as a Revenue Agent, then as a District Conferee, and finally as an Appeals Officer. Buck joined the law firm of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1982 and was the tax partner in the Georgetown, Delaware, office of the firm from 1989 through October 1994. He was a Vice President and Southern Trust & Private Banking Division Manager in the Personal Financial Services Department of Wilmington Trust Company (now M & T Bank) from November 1994 through June 1996.

Buck resumed the private practice of law in Georgetown, Delaware in July 1996, concentrating in real estate, income tax planning, 1031 exchanges, estate planning, estate administration, elder law and business sales and planning. He was Of Counsel with the law firm of Smith McCartney & Owens, LLC, in Georgetown, Delaware, and which merged into the Georgetown, Delaware, firm of Sergovic Carmean & Weidman, P.A. in 2016, where he is Of Counsel. He is also a Manager of SOPB Exchangors, LLC, a qualified intermediary company that facilitates IRS Section 1031 like kind exchanges. Buck is a member of the Delaware Bar Association and the Sussex County Bar Association, He is a former member of the Southern Delaware Estate Planning Council (President 2009-2010), the St. Andrew’s School Alumni Association Board (President 2013-2015), the Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences (President of the Board of Directors 2009) and was a founder and former Treasurer of The Jefferson School, Georgetown, Delaware, and former Secretary of Cripple Creek Golf & Country Club, Clarksville, Delaware.

She is a member of the bars of the State of Delaware, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. A graduate of the University of Delaware (BAAS International Relations) (Advanced Honors Certificate) and the Widener University School of Law (J.D.), graduating magna cum laude. While at Widener she served on the Delaware Law Symposium Journal and was awarded the President’s Award. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a Wolcott Fellow for the Delaware Supreme Court for Justice Randy J. Holland and a judicial law clerk for the Sussex County Superior Court for the Honorable Richard F. Stokes. She concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, estate planning and elder law. In addition, she is a Manager of SOPB Exchangors, LLC, a qualified intermediary company that facilitates IRS Section 1031 like kind exchanges.

She is the current chair of Elder Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, a member of the American Bar Association, the Delaware State Bar Association, the Sussex County Bar Association, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Board member of the Board of the Southern Delaware Estate Planning Council, and the Terry Carey American Inns of Court where she currently serves on the Executive Committee. Deirdre also serves on the Board of the ACTS Legacy Foundation, President of the Board of Commissioners of the Georgetown Public Library, serves as an ambassador for the University of Delaware Kent and Sussex Blue Hen Network, is the Board of Ambassadors of the Beebe Medical Foundation. She resides in Georgetown with her husband and children. In her free time, Deirdre enjoys traveling and cooking.