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Hank Leibowitz

Hank Leibowitz, a partner in the Private Client Services Department, has a practice encompassing all aspects of estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration and fiduciary litigation. Hank is a member of the Firm’s cross-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional Coronavirus Response Team. He addresses client concerns with respect to gift tax and estate tax issues. Additionally during the pandemic Hank has had to deal with logistical issues concerning the execution of documents requiring witnesses and notaries as well as navigating the probate court system during this difficult time.

Hank primarily represents individuals in a wide variety of estate and financial planning issues including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning. He has obtained favorable private letter rulings from the IRS in connection with the preparation of estate plans for his clients. In recent years, Hank has become very involved with planning relating to distributions from qualified plans and IRA's, including Roth rollovers, income and estate tax issues and devising methods that allow continued tax deferral within said plans. He also has extensive experience with all types of life insurance planning, including split-dollar arrangements.

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The New Estate Tax Law – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

The recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubles the amount of property that may pass free from federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. However, the doubling of the exemption amount is temporary and will sunset after 2025. Proskauer’s Private Client Services Group published a client alert focused on the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer … Continue Reading
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