Trusts & Estates

Brody Wilkinson's Trusts & Estates Group is one of the most sophisticated and extensive practices of its kind in Fairfield County.  The Group provides diverse and highly personalized services to individual clients throughout Connecticut in the areas of estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration, wealth preservation and transmission, charitable giving, business succession planning, family foundations, conservatorships and guardianships, elder law, and probate and trust litigation.  Attorneys in the Group serve as trusted family advisors to a substantial base of senior executives, entrepreneurs and weathly individuals.  In addition, the Group counsels many charitable organizations on tax planning.  Collectively, our attorneys have represented clients in trusts and estates matters for over 150 years.

With support from the firm's Business Group, our Trusts & Estates Group attorneys are well qualified to represent entrepreneurs and owners of family and closely-held businesses.  For these clients, we integrate the skills, depth and breadth of these two practices and collaborate to create sophisticated legal strategies designed to both accumulate and preserve wealth.  This cross-disciplinary approach enables the firm to coordinate and manage the needs and goals of these clients, both personal and business, in a seamless manner.  We also counsel these clients with respect to business succession planning.

Business Succession Planning
Charitable Gift Planning & Family Foundations
Conservatorships & Guardianships
Elder Law
Estate Administration
Estate Planning
Probate & Trust Litigation
Tax Planning
Trust Administration

Attorneys:

Jennifer A. Basciano
 203-319-7113 
William J. Britt
 203-319-7151 
Seth O. L. Brody
 203-319-7117 
Douglas R. Brown
 203-319-7119 
Heather J. Lange
 203-319-7142 
Lisa F. Metz
 203-319-7137 
Peter T. Mott
 203-319-7136 
Ronald B. Noren
 203-319-7134 
S. Giles Payne
 203-319-7150 
Robert L. Teicher
 203-319-7129 
Melinda E. Todgham
 203-319-7154