Mark E House

Partner

Becker & House PLLC

Mark E. House is a partner at Becker & House, PLLC. Mark’s primary focus is on trust and estate litigation. His litigation background includes will contests, financial exploitation, fiduciary litigation and most other contested matters involving an estate or trust. Additionally, Mark has the expertise to represent fiduciaries administering an estate or trust involved in litigation. Mark has an excellent background in estate planning and all aspects of estate, gift and income taxes and tax planning. Because of his experience with complicated estate tax issues, Mark is often retained to provide guidance in estate litigation where tax problems are likely to arise. Mark speaks regularly on topics ranging from drafting to avoid litigation to the income tax issues of trust funding and has been an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University School of Law, where he teaches Trusts and Decedents Estates. He formerly taught at Arizona Summit Law School from 2009 - 2018, where he taught Trusts and Estates, Estate and Gift Tax, Estate Planning, Federal Income Taxation, and Remedies. Mark also serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court. Mark is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Mark received his B.S.B.A. degree in Business Economics from Northern Arizona University in 1995 and received his J.D. degree, with distinction, in 1998 from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.