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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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