ESTATES & TRUSTS LAW
Advice. For A Lifetime.
Keeping your business safe for the future. Preserving your legacy through succession. Protecting your family for generations. Estate & Trusts planning creates enduring legacies that last lifetimes. Whether through drafting wills, succession planning or estate settlements, Underberg & Kessler has been providing a full range of estate and trust services since we were founded more than 80 years ago. We will assist you with a sensitivity and thoroughness that ensures that your estate planning goals and objectives are achieved.
Our Estates & Trusts Group has experience in private practice, in Corporate Trust Departments and the Estate and Gift Tax Bureau of the Internal Revenue Service. We represent corporate trust departments, individuals, families, businesses and charitable organizations. We assist in the administration and settlement of estates, trusts and guardianships. And we advise clients on charitable giving, Medicaid planning, business continuation and life insurance.
Our Estates & Trusts services include:
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Underberg & Kessler’s Estates & Trusts Group has considerable experience in counseling clients and implementing a broad range of estate planning vehicles, including:
Wills containing non-tax planning testamentary trusts
Wills containing tax planning testamentary trusts
Powers of attorney, health care proxies and living wills
Revocable living trusts, both with and without estate tax planning provisions
Irrevocable life insurance trusts
Qualified personal residence trusts
Charitable remainder and lead trusts
Grantor retained annuity or unitrusts
Defective grantor trusts
Dynasty trusts
Family limited partnerships and limited liability companies
In addition we provide assistance and planning guidance with respect to:
Medicaid planning
Elder care planning
Gifting programs
Educational trust planning