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Kenneth D. Meskin, a member of the firm, has thirty-two years of experience in sophisticated trust and estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, probate litigation and closely-held business planning. Ken is extremely adept at using sophisticated and creative tax and estate planning techniques to ensure that assets pass to the intended beneficiaries at as little cost as possible to the client. In order to minimize state and federal tax burdens and transfer wealth, he has structured gift- giving programs, established charitable trusts and foundations, devised installment sales and private annuity transactions, planned for the succession of family businesses to younger generations, and has drafted wills, trust agreements, powers of attorney and living wills.
In the area of estate and trust administration, Ken has worked on a wide variety of matters including estate and trust litigation, will contests, post-mortem tax planning, the preparation of estate, gift, generation skipping, income and inheritance tax returns, federal estate tax audits and state inheritance proceedings, the representation of clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Tax Court, and guardianship issues and proceedings. Ken regularly counsels closely-held corporations and other companies in a variety of issues including tax strategies, tax disputes, mergers and acquisitions, structuring of joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies, and succession planning.
He is a frequent lecturer on tax/estate planning topics to accountants, financial planners, insurance professionals and other attorneys, and has authored numerous articles on a variety of related topics. Ken is listed in the Trusts and Estates Law section of the current issue of The Best Lawyers In America. | 