More Than Just a Will: A Plan Tailored to Meet Your Needs
The Pellegrino Law Firm has been preparing wills and estate planning instruments since Bernard Pellegrino first hung his shingle in 1929. Our experience in tax laws permits us to prepare estate plans that avoid death taxes while preserving family assets for the surviving spouse. We analyze our clients' needs and wishes and determine their death tax and probate exposure. We keep up with all the current gift, capital gain and death tax laws so we can provide you with all of the tax consequences which will enable you to make appropriate decisions for your estate plan.
We Offer Comprehensive Estate Planning Services
To meet our client's planning needs, we design and prepare wills, testamentary, irrevocable, revocable and "living" trusts, durable powers of attorney, family partnerships, corporations, LLC's and recapitalizations for gift-making purposes, and where appropriate, recommend asset title changes. In addition, we assist clients in elder law planning, including Title XIX and Medicaid issues, and the preparation of living wills, durable powers of attorney, health care representative appointments and contingent appointments of conservators, as well as guardianship and conservatorship probate proceedings.
But We Give You Just What You Need
Attorney Frances B. Granquist believes that everyone needs a will and several other documents, including an advance directive (living will), durable power of attorney and health care representative She'll offer this simple will package for a reasonable fee. This package includes all the estate planning documents many people will ever need.
We will analyze your circumstances and tell you forthrightly whether it would be in your best interest to have a trust or other estate planning tools. Many times the answer is, "No."
The firm also represents estates and estate beneficiaries, and has served as special counsel to bank executors and trustees, in probate courts throughout Connecticut. This often requires preparation and filing of the old state succession tax returns and the new estate tax returns, federal estate tax returns, and state and federal gift tax returns, as well as handling the tax audits of those returns.
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