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Our extensive practice in estate
planning, probate and trust administration involves planning and
administering estates and trusts of all sizes — providing guidance to
anticipate and meet changing needs.
We are well-versed in methods
available to reduce gift, estate, generation-skipping, inheritance,
excise and income taxes to preserve family assets and facilitate
transfers of assets, including family businesses, to succeeding
generations. We also have extensive experience in retirement income
taxation and the elections that can be made with respect to retirement
plan distributions.
Estate planning, probate and trust administration often requires
knowledge in related practice areas, such as business law and
litigation. Our firm has the resources readily available to create a
team of lawyers with the skills necessary to meet our clients' needs.
Our services include:
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Preparing tax-oriented wills and revocable trusts,
irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts,
irrevocable trusts that are taxed to the grantor for income tax
purposes, qualified personal residence trusts, and
generation-skipping trusts.
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Preparing federal gift, estate and generation-skipping tax
returns, Kansas estate tax returns and other state death tax
returns.
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Obtaining rulings from taxing authorities.
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Forming family limited partnerships, limited liability
companies, corporations, limited liability partnerships and general
partnerships.
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Planning charitable transfers to facilitate estate planning
goals, creating charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts
and other split-interest arrangements between charities and
individuals or entities.
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Advising executors, trustees, conservators and other fiduciaries
during the administration of estates and trusts.
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Negotiating and/or litigating will contests or trust contests
and other disputes involving wills or trusts.
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Meeting the legal needs of the elderly — advising elderly
clients about the proper use of trusts as property management
techniques and assisting the elderly and their families with
guardianships and conservatorships.
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Preparing powers of attorney, including health care powers of
attorney, and living wills and advising clients on the use of these
documents.
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