Estate Planning & Wealth Preservation

Core Estate Planning Services include:

  • Wills, and if appropriate, Revocable Trusts
  • Powers of Attorney and Living Wills
  • Beneficiary Designations for Life Insurance and Retirement Plans

 More complex estate planning may involve the strategies using:

  • Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
  • Funded Revocable Trusts
  • Transfers of business interests and certain investment assets via Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) and Family Limited Liability Companies (FLLCs)
  • Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs), Grantor Retained Unitrusts (GRUTs), and Grantor Retained Income Trusts (GRITs)
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts
  • Private Foundations
  • Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs)
  • Sales and gifts to Irrevocable Grantor Trusts
  • Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
  • Limited Liability Companies and similar entities for family asset protection
  • Qualified Domestic Trusts (QDOTs) for non-citizen spouses