Guzmán Ariza´s Trusts & Estates Practice provides sound legal advice and insight to help protect your assets during your lifetime and for your family’s future. Whether for high-net-worth individuals, businesses, nonprofits, or corporate trust departments—and in local, multistate, and multinational transactions—the Trusts &  Estates Practice delivers sophisticated strategies. We advise clients on all aspects of planning, administration, settlement, and taxation of estates and trusts, collaborating with other practice areas to provide comprehensive solutions.

Estate Planning

The firm’s estate planning experience includes the preparation of wills and trusts, family partnerships, limited liability companies, grantor retained interest trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, sales to intentionally defective trusts, charitable trusts, life insurance trusts, prenuptial agreements, disclaimers, qualified terminable interest trusts, qualified domestic trusts, offshore trusts, private annuities and other planning devices.

Trusts & Estates Litigation

Our fiduciary attorneys step in when a trust or estate becomes contested and when an executor or trustee is the subject of litigation or needs advice to manage risk and avoid litigation. Our team represents beneficiaries, executors, trustees, guardians, creditors and charitable organizations before trial courts and appellate courts. In addition, we assist individual executors, trustees, guardians and agents, and corporate fiduciaries avoid or mitigate litigation through fiduciary risk management, including preparation of accountings and beneficiary communications, fiduciary succession and trust modifications.