George E. Diehr, Jr. helps clients prepare for the future, both for themselves and for future generations. As a trusts and estates attorney, George concentrates his practice on all facets of basic and sophisticated estate planning and wealth preservation, including federal income, gift and estate tax planning, business succession planning, asset protection planning, and creditor avoidance planning.
George’s basic transactional estate planning experience includes the preparation of numerous types of personal estate planning documents such as:
- Revocable Trust Agreements
- Last Wills and Testaments
- Financial Durable Powers of Attorney
- Health Care Declarations
George’s more sophisticated estate planning experience includes the preparation of the following documents:
- Intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs) and advice and consultation with respect to the sale of assets to an IDGT and the supplemental transactional documents;
- Irrevocable Generational Trusts (grantor and non-grantor);
- Spousal Limited/Lifetime Access Trusts (SLATs);
- Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs);
- Charitable Trusts (Lifetime and Testamentary); and
- Private foundations.
He also has significant post-death trust and estate administration experience, including the modification of irrevocable trusts (whether via nonjudicial settlement agreement, decanting, as well as court-supervised trust modification). Further, George routinely assists fiduciaries from start to finish with respect to the post-death administration of probate estates, trusts, guardianships, and conservatorships.
Finally, George is often engaged with the preparation of federal estate tax returns, federal gift tax returns, and fiduciary income tax returns.
