Holland,
Michigan
Scott DeWeerd focuses his practice on tax, asset protection, and estate planning for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their families, including owners of closely held businesses, investment fund principals, and corporate executives. His primary areas of expertise include income taxation of trusts and estates, taxation of wealth transfers (gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxation, and Chapter 14 special valuation rules), and income taxation of individuals. Additional areas of expertise include the formation, operation, and succession of closely held businesses, private foundations, and single-family offices; partnership taxation; philanthropy and charitable giving strategies; administration and litigation of trusts and estates; and resolution of tax disputes with federal, state, and local tax authorities. Mr. DeWeerd attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles on scholarship where he received a J.D. with a concentration in corporate law and an LLM in Taxation with an emphasis on tax planning for family wealth.
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