The Firm’s estates and trusts practice includes counseling individuals, families, businesses, professionals, executives, and fiduciaries in protecting, conserving, transferring and managing assets both here in the United States and abroad. Choate & Seletski provides a full range of estate planning services, including the preparation of sophisticated Wills and Trusts, business succession planning, asset protection, planning for same-sex marriages and domestic partners, generation-skipping transfer tax planning, charitable planning, other lifetime gifting plans, and international matters/issues, as well as administration of estates and trusts.
| Estate Planning | Estate Administration |
| Estate, Inheritance, Gift and Fiduciary Tax | Guardianship Proceeding |
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Estate Planning
The Firm’s estates and trusts practice includes counseling individuals, families, businesses, professionals, executives, and fiduciaries in protecting, conserving, transferring and managing assets both here in the United States and abroad.
Choate & Seletski provides a full range of estate planning services, including the preparation of
- Charitable planning and other lifetime gifting plans
- Sophisticated and Simple Wills
- Testamentary Trusts
- Trust Agreements (Living Trusts, Qualified Domestic Trust (QDT), Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRT), Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trusts (QTIP), Insurance Trusts (ILIT), Charitable Trusts, Grantor Trusts, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), Pet Trusts, Children and Grandchildren Trusts, Educational Trusts and Special (Supplemental) Needs Trusts)
- Power of Attorney
- Health Care Documents (Health Care Declaration, Health Care Proxy, and Living Wills), and Business succession planning,
- Asset protection
- Planning for same-sex couples (same-sex marriages) and domestic partners
- International matters/issues, as well as administration of estates and trusts, please see International.
Please feel free to contact us for a consultation if you have any estate planning questions.
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Estate Administration
The Firm’s practice includes administering estates and trusts and advising fiduciaries (executors and administrators of estates and trustees) on the 
administration of estates and trusts both domestically (USA) and internationally (for estates with assets located in Ukraine and Russia and other countries).
Choate & Seletski provides a full range of estate administration services including the filing of probate and administration with the Surrogate’s/Probate or Orphan’s Courts, the preparation of accountings and accompanying documents, estate and fiduciary tax returns, Wills contests, and forced heirship issues for estates having assets overseas.
Choate & Seletski can act as a fiduciary for an estate and trust.
Choate & Seletski assist with due diligence searches for lost/unknown heirs in the USA, Ukraine and Russia.
Please feel free to contact us for a consultation if you have any question regarding estate administration.
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Guardianship Proceeding
Choate & Seletski counsels and represents clients in guardianship proceedings of both a person and a person’s property (estate) both in New York and New Jersey:
- Guardianship under Article 17 of New York Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act
- Guardianship under Article 17A of New York Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act
- Guardianship under Article 81 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law
- Guardianship under N.J.S. 3B:12
Choate & Seletski prepares of powers of attorney, health care documents, establishes supplemental (special) needs trusts for persons with disabilities.
Choate & Seletski assist in guardianship proceedings and prepares of powers of attorney in Ukraine and Russia.
Please feel free to contact us for a consultation if you have question regarding guardianship.
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Estate, Inheritance, Gift and Fiduciary Tax
Choate & Seletski advises clients (residents, non-residents) on various estate, Inheritance, gift and fiduciary tax issues:
- Federal gift reporting and taxation on gifts from domestic and international sources
- Federal Estate Taxation (domestic and international estates)
- State Estate and Inheritance taxation
Our Firm also offers services in preparing and filing federal estate (Form 706) and gift (Form 709) tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns (Form 1041) and accountings for estates and trusts.
Choate & Seletski also advises clients on various international and local estate and gift tax issues in Ukraine and Russia:
Please feel free to contact us for a consultation if you have any question regarding estate and gift taxation.
