Fiduciary Counsel
Our lawyers have extensive experience advising individual and corporate fiduciaries on the multitude of questions trustees, executors and other fiduciaries confront, including the proper application of relevant trust and estate law as well as income and transfer tax laws, the interpretation of wills and governing trust instruments and all aspects of trust and estate administration. We frequently are engaged to negotiate and prepare agreements with beneficiaries, including virtual representation agreements, on matters such as a consent to a proposed transaction, conversion to total return trusts and the release and indemnification of trustees and executors. Our lawyers are often called upon to advise trustees and executors on how to avoid beneficiary disputes or how to resolve such disputes without litigation when they do arise. Trust law is evolving rapidly and our lawyers are at the cutting edge drafting state laws, speaking on new legislation and acting as advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement of Trusts Third project.
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