Estate Planning & Probate :: Competencies



Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter’s estate planning and probate practice provides experience in:

  • Estate planning
    • Wills
    • Trusts
    • Living wills and health care directives
    • Powers of attorney
  • Tax planning
    • Estate and gift tax (706 &709)
    • Generation-skipping transfer taxes
    • Fiduciary income tax (1041)
  • Leverage transfers for tax planning
    • Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs)
    • Family limited partnerships (FLPs) and limited liability companies (LLCs)
    • Gifts and sales to intentionally defective “grantor trusts” (IDGTs)
    • Qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs)
    • Crummey Trusts
    • Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILITs)
    • Dynasty Trusts
  • Philanthropic
    • Charitable remainder trusts
    • Charitable lead trusts
    • Gifts of appreciated property
    • Community foundations
    • Supporting organizations
    • Private foundations
  • Life Insurance
    • Product suitability (how much and what kind of insurance)
    • Structuring for taxes
    • Split dollar
    • Family split dollar
    • Key person insurance
    • Corporate-owned life insurance
  • Family governance
    • Succession planning
    • Family business boards
    • Family meetings
  • Probate
    • Administration of trusts and estates
    • Guardianships
    • Fiduciary counseling
    • Estate and trust litigation
    • Adoptions
    • Name changes