Laura Wilensky focuses her practice on trusts and estates law, concentrating on estate and tax planning, and trust and estate administration. She works with individuals and families to structure and implement estate and gifting plans to meet their personal and financial objectives in a tax-efficient manner.
Laura drafts complex wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, including life insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and split interest trusts. In addition, she prepares federal gift tax returns, federal and state estate tax returns, and state inheritance tax returns. She advises fiduciaries in all stages of trust and estate administration.
Laura is a graduate of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2018
- Emory University School of Law, J.D., 2011, with honors
- University of Virginia, B.A., 2008, with high distinction
- New Jersey, 2011
- New York, 2012
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey
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- Graduate of Class I- Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
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- Work with individuals in structuring and implementing estate plans to meet their personal and financial objectives in a tax-efficient manner
- Draft complex wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, including life insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and charitable split interest trusts
- Prepare federal gift tax returns, federal and state estate tax returns and state inheritance tax returns
- Advise fiduciaries in all stages of trust and estate administration
- American Bar Association, member
- New Jersey State Bar Association, member