Lane Powell LLC

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A Pacific Northwest law firm serving Seattle, Portland, Anchorage, Olympia and London, providing legal services in business, litigation, labor and employment, technology, financial, retail and real estate law.

Lane Powell LLC
301 W Northern Lights Blvd #301
Anchorage AK 99503-2648
Tel: 907 277-9511
Fax: 907 276-2631

Trusts and Estates

Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group is comprised of a team of attorneys who practice in all aspects of estate and gift planning; business succession planning; probate and trust administration; charitable planning; asset protection planning; international estate planning; trust, estate and guardianship disputes and litigation.

Our Clients

The attorneys in Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group focus on personal planning for high net worth families and individuals. By listening to our clients we create solutions to a wide variety of challenging situations and estate planning problems. In addition, as a hallmark of our collaborative approach to planning and problem solving, we put a priority on working with our individual clients’ entire team of personal planners (which can include financial advisors, wealth management consultants and accountants) to complete personalized plans that fit each client’s unique circumstances.

Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group represents clients who have diverse property interests and who also request our advice on transactions and issues involving multiple jurisdictions.

Our Approach to Planning

We focus on creating customized, personal plans that fit each client’s individual circumstances and goals. Families often need to address difficult family relationships and dynamics in their personal planning. Specializing in such personal planning, our Trusts and Estates Practice Group offers innovative solutions to the issues facing our clients, and the business succession problems encountered by business owners. As a result, we are able to develop estate planning strategies that can provide our clients and their families with significant estate, gift and income tax savings. We help families and individuals face a wide variety of difficult issues that can arise when designing a plan to transfer family wealth from one generation to the next. Such planning often involves:

Federal and State Estate Taxes
* Business Succession Planning
* Income Tax Planning
* Charitable Planning
* Asset Protection Planning
* Cohabitation, Premarital and Postnuptial Agreements as well as Property Agreements tailored to nontraditional relationships recognized by courts of the various states in which our clients reside

In addition, we work with families after the death of a loved one, assisting with:
* Probate and Trust Administration
* Advising Heirs and Beneficiaries (including surviving spouses and younger generations)

Our Approach to Challenges

Unfortunately, even with the most careful planning and best of intentions, personal planning may be challenged by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or by other family members. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing clients before the IRS. We also have extensive experience representing fiduciaries, beneficiaries and family members in probate, trust and guardianship litigation.

Our Sophisticated Knowledge Base

The laws governing estates, wills and trusts, and the federal and state estate tax laws, are complex and constantly changing. Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group works continuously to keep abreast of these changes and their potential impact on our clients and their businesses. Our attorneys regularly write and speak on the many complex issues that arise in estate planning and administration to local, regional and national audiences. In addition, because of our expertise and reputation for presenting complex ideas clearly, we are frequently called upon by state and local bar associations to lead seminars and presentations.

Our Relationships With Our Clients and Our Communities

Each of the attorneys in Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group strives to build strong, long-lasting relationships with our clients. We assist our clients through the many stages of their personal planning — from premarital planning and estate planning for a young family, to wealth transfer and business succession strategies in the later years. Our relationships with our clients are strong and they remain strong through the difficult periods of probate and trust administration after death, where we continue to advise and educate the next generation. We pride ourselves on the relationships we have built with clients that have lasted throughout several generations.

We also take great satisfaction from active involvement in our local communities through service on boards of directors for a variety of not-for-profit organizations.

Range of Services

Lane Powell’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group offer a wide range of services:
* Wills and Trusts
* Community Property
* Partnership, LLC, and Buy-Sell Agreements
* Revocable Trusts (also known as Living Trusts)
* Irrevocable Trusts
* Cohabitation, Prenuptial, Postnuptial and Other Forms of Property Agreements
* Charitable Planning, including charitable trusts, donor advised funds, supporting organizations, private foundations and tax-exempt organizations
* Fiduciary Representation, including Probate and Trust Administration Services
* Preparation of federal and state Estate and Gift Tax Returns
* Representation in Estate and Trust Dispute Resolution, including mediation and, if necessary, litigation, addressing matters such as will contests, trust litigation, guardianship conflicts and IRS or state tax return audits
* Business Planning, including business succession planning, transition of business ownership, representation of the business in tax-related matters