New Jersey Tax, Trusts and Estate Law Blog

Brach Eichler's Wills, Trusts & Estates Practice Group provides state-of the-art planning for clients and their families, as well as estate/trust administration. Our clients include individuals, closely held business owners, charities and trustees.

The Wills, Trusts & Estates attorneys in the Group are familiar with the most sophisticated estate planning opportunities. In addition to dealing with complicated issues associated with intergenerational planning, the Group's attorneys have implemented estate plans involving:
 

	Family limited partnerships and limited liability companies
	Grantor-retained annuity trusts
	Personal residence trusts
	Dynasty trusts and other generation-skipping transfers
	Intentionally defective grantor trusts
	Irrevocable life insurance trusts (for individual life coverage as well as second-to-die / survivorship coverage)
	Split dollar life insurance planning
	Charitable remainder and lead trusts
	Private charitable foundations
	Private annuities
	Asset protection trusts
	Special needs planning
	Retirement planning including planning for qualified plans and IRAs
	Financial powers of attorney
	Living wills and health care directives

The Group represents business owners with business succession planning, preparation of buy-sell agreements, shareholder's agreements, employment agreements, assistance with pension matters and general tax planning.

In addition, the Wills, Trusts & Estates attorneys are actively involved in all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts, including sophisticated postmortem tax planning, death tax return preparation/audit defense and probate court administration. This includes Will challenges, Will and Trust reformation, Contested Accountings and Fiduciary Litigation. The Group, working in conjunction with our litigation attorneys, provides probate litigation attorneys and guardianship petitions.

Through our team of experienced attorneys, paralegals and support staff we are able to provide services for:

•  Planning and preparation of gift tax returns, death tax returns and fiduciary income  tax returns
   
•  Probate court accountings
   
•  Review and analysis of valuation reports
   
•  Working closely with certified public accountants
   
•  Coordination with financial planners
   
•  All other documents required for administering sophisticated estates