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Financial & Estate Planning
Areas of Concentration
- Trust & estates
- Retirement planning
- Wealth preservation
- Charitable giving
- Insurance planning
- Closely held business succession and planning
Recognized skills and experience in sophisticated and creative planning techniques that help to minimize your taxes and maximize your control of your assets. That’s why business owners, professionals and others with significant wealth or property choose the AP&S Financial and Estate Planning Group to achieve their long-term financial objectives.
We work to understand your unique situation and provide customized estate planning and wealth transfer strategies that realize your financial goals, securing the utmost benefit for you, your family, your business and the organizations you support.
For new or revised estate plans, we devise tax-efficient business succession for closely held businesses, smart charitable giving tactics and innovative trust arrangements, and can collaborate with your accountant, financial planner, insurance consultant or broker to create a seamless financial plan that works to guarantee your objectives.
Representative Matters
Our representations have included:
- Drafting wills and trust documents
- The strategic role of life insurance in estate planning, including the use of irrevocable trusts
- Planning for incapacity or death
- Planning for clients with dependents or family members with special needs
- Representing descendants’ and guardianship estates in probate proceedings, including contested matters
- Preparation of estates, including Medicaid planning, gift and fiduciary tax returns
- Minimizing asset exposure to creditors
- Specialized income and estate planning closely-held businesses to the next generation and buy-sell agreements
- Charitable giving, including the formation of tax-exempt corporations and charitable trusts
- Executive and nonqualified deferred compensation, split-dollar funding or life insurance, and other fringe benefits for business owners and key employees
News & Media
- AP&S Welcomes Joseph R. Marion, III
- U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers Release 2010 Best Law Firm Rankings
- AP&S Welcomes New Associate to Estate Planning Group
Publications
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight On Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning
- Insight on Estate Planning