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ESTATE PLANNING
The Litigation Law Group approach to estate planning is
to combine estate planning and probate or trust administrative
experience with the way businesses and families interact during a
person’s lifetime, as well as after a person’s death. The Litigation Law Group
combines expertise in business and estate planning and the overall
skills of the Firm in corporate, litigation and real estate to provide
a broad base of support to the Firm’s estate planning practice.
Our services range from simple estate
planning to sophisticated estate and tax planning matters that involve
gifting, charitable giving and private foundations, as well as asset
protection, specialized plans for owners of closely held businesses
and executives of publicly held corporations, business succession
plans, retirement planning and planning for clients with highly
specialized needs such as multigenerational planning and international
assets and family. We work with our clients to develop estate planning
goals for themselves and their families and then assist our client to
achieve their goals using established and innovative estate planning
techniques.
We assist companies, families and
individuals to achieve their goals and objectives through asset
management, diversification, succession planning and long-term wealth
transfer strategies.
This includes the following areas:
- Income Tax
- Estate & Gift Tax
- Wills, Living Trusts, Children's
Trusts & Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
- Durable Powers of Attorney for
Health Care
- Business Entity Creation
- Family Business Succession Planning
- Insurance Planning Strategies
- Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
Planning
- Probate & Trust Administration
The Litigation Law Group’s estate planning
practice provides advice and representation to individuals and
families in the worlds of estate planning, business succession, estate
administration, probate, conservatorship and guardianship issues,
including:
- Estate planning, with regards to
both the tax and non-tax concerns, including all aspects of
implementation such as living trusts, life insurance trusts and
wills, and the preparation of ancillary documents, such as deeds,
limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and pre-marital
and post-marital agreements
- Charitable gift planning and the
organization and administration of charitable foundations, trusts
and other vehicles for tax advantaged charitable giving, including
the use of charitable remainder and lead trusts
- Income, gift, estate and
generation-skipping tax planning and advice for individuals and
families
- Organization, funding and sale of
privately-owned business and real property interests
- Gifting programs, including
formation of educational and irrevocable trusts
- Planning for non-U.S. citizen
clients, including the use of qualified domestic trusts
- Planning for incapacity, including
Durable Powers of Attorney for property and health care,
conservatorships and guardianships
- Trust administration, including post
death tax planning, transfer of assets and advice to trustees,
interpretation of wills and trusts, disputes regarding the probate
of wills, the review and allowance of estate and trust accountings,
and technical matters regarding the assessment and allocation of
taxes
- Probate, court administration of
property of a decedent’s estate
- Will and trust controversy matters
- Planning and preservation of wealth
and retirement assets through the use of state law creditor
exemptions and federal and international laws
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