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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Estate Planning Group has extensive experience counseling clients to minimize or eliminate federal estate and gift taxes, and state estate and inheritance taxes while achieving family goals. In addition to planning and strategy, our attorneys assist in tax compliance, estate administration, and controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities and fiduciary litigation.


 

Services Available

Planning services include:

  • Pour-over wills
  • Revocable trusts (living trusts)
  • Marital deduction trusts
  • Credit shelter trusts
  • Irrevocable life insurance trusts
  • Life insurance trust
  • Crummey trusts
  • Gifts to minors
  • Retirement planning
  • Estate administration
  • Domestic asset protection
  • Prenuptial planning
  • Tax planning for divorce
  • Powers of Attorney and similar arrangements
  • Advance Health Care directives

Gifting Strategies

  • Generation-skipping transfer tax and exemption planning
  • Dynasty trusts
  • Wealth leveraging techniques   

Charitable Planning

  • Charitable gifts
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Charitable lead trusts
  • Private foundations
  • Public foundations
  • Supporting organizations

Closely Held Businesses

  • Succession planning
  • Buy-sell agreements
  • Family limited partnerships
  • Limited liability companies
  • Grantor retained annuity trusts
  • Sale to defective trusts
  • Installment sales
  • Private annuities
  • Qualified personal residence trusts

Representative Experience

Multiple Clients
Probate Representation
Represented individuals and financial institutions in routine and complex probate matters.

Multiple Clients
Estate Planning
Provided comprehensive estate planning advice to clients of modest and significant wealth.

Anonymous Estate Planning Client
Estate and Trust Administration; Gift Tax Audit Representation
Creation of private foundation; creation of charitable lead annuity trust