Estate & Trust

Dinsmore’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.

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