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Our Services - Legal Services - Wills, Trust & Estate Planning

Snyder & Snyder is an active participant with senior's organizations in order to provide quality legal services for today's seniors. We are also all members of the Dallas Estate Planning Council.

The attorneys at Snyder & Snyder bring decades of experience to the table in counseling their clients regarding estate planning issues. We routinely prepare last wills and testaments, testamentary trusts, durable powers of attorneys, health care powers of attorneys, declaration of guardianships and directives to physicians.

In addition to the basic testamentary planning, Snyder & Snyder is actively engaged in complex estate planning including the preparation of marital bypass trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and family limited partnerships. In its estate planning practice, Snyder & Snyder is able to harness the extensive tax acumen of its attorneys in order to aggressively serve the complex estate planning needs of its high-net worth clients. For our high-net worth clients, our paramount goal is to coordinate the estate planning inherent in their Will with additional complex estate planning strategies and vehicles in order to maximize the value of the client's estate which may be transferred to their chosen beneficiaries free of the burdens of estate and generation skipping transfer taxes.

Given our broad-based tax backgrounds, our clients dramatically benefit from our expertise in the most advanced and aggressive wealth transfer and tax avoidance techniques. Our forward-looking estate planning has had a profound and positive impact on the ability of our clients to turn their personal fortunes into multi-generational wealth. Snyder & Snyder understands that each client is different in the aggressiveness with which they are willing to approach estate tax planning. Snyder & Snyder will only take as aggressive an approach as the client is comfortable taking and which is appropriate in light of the client's estate planning needs. While the degree of aggressiveness with which we approach estate planning will vary, the common element in the representation of all of our estate tax planning clients is the importance with which we place on only taking as aggressive a position as is reasonable and justifiable under the current tax laws.

Snyder & Snyder is experienced and knowledgeable in virtually every facet of Wills and sophisticated estate planning vehicles and wealth transfer techniques including the following vehicles, techniques and areas of law:

  • Will Preparation
  • Estate Tax law
  • Gift Tax Law
  • Generation Skipping Tax law
  • Testamentary Trusts
  • Intervivous Trusts
  • Crummy Trusts
  • Charitabale Remainder Trusts (CRT)
  • Marital Bypass Trusts
  • Family Limited Partnerships
  • Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRAT)
  • Irrevocable Trusts
     
  • Defective Grantor Trusts
  • Annual exclusion gifting techniques
  • Self-Canceling Installment Notes (SCIN)
  • Charitable Lead Trusts (CLAT)
  • Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPTR)
  • Valuation Discount Planning
  • Minority Discount Planning
  • Defective Sales Planning
  • Dynasty Trusts
  • Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILIT)
  • Marital Deduction Planning
  • Revocable Trusts