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 Our trust and estate lawyers provide legal services covering all phases of estate planning and estate and trust administration. These services include the representation and administration of estates, trusts, custodianships, conservatorships, and guardianships.
We regularly counsel clients about estate planning options and opportunities to avoid estate taxes and probate. Thus, our practice includes such familiar items as wills and living trusts. However, it extends to such sophisticated matters as charitable split-interest trusts, life insurance trusts, and premarital and post-marital property agreements. In addition, we advise clients about durable powers of attorney for health care decisions and for financial decisions.
Our trust and estate attorneys regularly formulate highly sophisticated strategies to preserve and transfer family wealth, combining a sensitivity to the emotional needs of the family with a thorough knowledge of applicable law. We counsel and advise clients on lifetime and testamentary transfer of assets and businesses through estate planning and prepare all necessary documentation, considering the client's personal needs and desires, while also coordinating the continuity and transfer of closely-held businesses using shareholder or partnership agreements, trusts, and other planning tools.
Our attorneys advise clients about executive compensation and other personal financial issues, property agreements, private foundations, and charitable contributions. We handle litigation arising in the probate and trust areas.
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