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Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts and Estate Administration


Our estate planning and estate administration practice group includes some of the most distinguished estate planning and estate administration, Board-certified, lawyers in Louisiana, who offer a wide range of services in estate planning and estate administration. Two of our lawyers (Max Nathan, Jr. and Carole Cukell Neff) literally "wrote the book" (or actually the multi-volume treatise) on the subject: Louisiana Estate Planning, Will Drafting and Estate Administration (LEXIS Law Publishing, Second Edition).

Here are just some of the matters our estate planning and estate administration lawyers have handled:

  • Prepared wills, trusts, donations and powers of attorney
  • Advised about interpretations of wills, trusts and donations
  • Probated wills
  • Advised about and handled the administration of successions
  • Prepared estate and inheritance tax returns
  • Developed sophisticated estate plans
  • Formulated plans to support surviving spouses, educate children,
    and plan for old age
  • Advised about generation-skipping tax issues
  • Helped with post-mortem estate planning
  • Advised about planning with entities, including limited liability companies, corporations and family partnerships
  • Overseen estate tax audits
  • Advised about planning for disability and prepared Special Needs Trusts for disabled individuals
  • Counseled about charitable giving
  • Litigated succession and trust issues, including forced heirship, will and trust interpretation, testamentary capacity, undue influence and breach of trust

    * Denotes Practice Area Leader

 

Carole Cukell Neff*
Max Nathan, Jr.
William M. Lucas, Jr.
Eric M.Schorr
Danielle M. Ross
Harold Aucoin

Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, L.L.P.

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