Services

Cole Schotz’s Tax, Trusts & Estates Department represents families, individuals, business owners, and entrepreneurs in connection with all aspects of their tax, business and estate planning. We provide a broad range of legal services including the following:

  • Wills, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills and Health Care Proxies
  • Revocable Inter-Vivos Trusts
  • QTIP trusts
  • Unified credit trusts
  • Life insurance trusts
  • All aspects of estate administration
  • Generation Skipping Tax Planning
  • Lifetime gift giving programs
  • Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
  • GRATs
  • Family Limited Partnerships
  • Limited Liability Companies
  • Sales to Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
  • Intra-family loans
  • Private annuities
  • Self Canceling Installment Notes
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts
  • Private Foundations and other charitable planning
  • Business succession planning
  • Tax Planning in a divorce property settlement
  • Special needs trusts
  • Guardianship actions
  • Letters of intent for special needs situations