Estate planning requires knowledge of complex areas of the law. It also requires the ability to understand a client’s most important wishes, priorities, and concerns. Our knowledgeable attorneys guide our clients through valuable planning that ensures peace of mind and smooth transition for their loved ones.

We have extensive experience in preparing a variety of estate planning documents, such as wills, powers of attorney, and trusts, including: revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, life insurance trusts, and charitable trusts. We also assist in planning for medical treatment decisions through the preparation of health care proxies and living wills. Our attorneys also counsel clients on income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax consequences and develop plans to minimize these taxes to help ensure that assets will pass consistent with each client’s wish.Our members have substantial experience in advising clients on the various techniques for business succession planning, multi-generational wealth transfer, and charitable giving. In developing a plan, we also evaluate the estate tax exposure and encourage flexible planning, which will be effective in any situation our clients or their estates may face.

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Our members utilize a team approach, working closely with each client’s accountants, financial planners, insurance agents, and other professionals, in order to develop a comprehensive estate plan, which encompasses the “big picture.” Each James Elliot Associate attorney is committed to developing plans specifically tailored to best meet each client’s unique needs. We help clients understand the benefit of and differences between the use of a will, revocable or irrevocable trusts, and intestate succession. By laying the foundation, we assist our clients in focusing and clarifying their goals, both for present and future needs.

James Elliot Associate’s Estates and Trusts team serves high net worth and ultra-high net worth U.S. and international clients. We work closely with clients to understand the unique details of their situation and to assist in accomplishing their planning goals and objectives, including advising clients on strategies to help protect and preserve their family’s wealth.

Our client relationships are rooted in our extraordinary efforts to fully understand all aspects of each client’s unique estate and tax issues, as well as their specific family dynamics and business and investment circumstances. We regularly use an interdisciplinary approach to provide advice that meets our client’s holistic planning objectives and helps thwart potential problems or risks.

Our client relationships are rooted in our extraordinary efforts to fully understand all aspects of each client’s unique estate and tax issues, as well as their specific family dynamics and business and investment circumstances. We regularly use an interdisciplinary approach to provide advice that meets our client’s holistic planning objectives and helps thwart potential problems or risks.