Lawyer Bio : Cornelius W. Coghill, III

Neil Coghill has over thirty years experience assisting individuals and families in estate and tax planning and family wealth transfer planning and assisting individual and corporate fiduciaries in probate and trust administration. Neil also has extensive experience in charitable giving and exempt organizations, including the organization and operation of private charitable foundations and supporting organizations. Working as a team with a member of the Firm’s business litigation practice, Neil’s practice also includes representing banks and trust companies in trust and estate controversies and fiduciary litigation and in the modification and termination of irrevocable trusts.

 

Two hallmark’s of Neil’s professional reputation are his ability to explain complex estate planning and tax techniques to his clients in plain, understandable terms, and his ability to set forth his clients’ goals in clear, readable documents. Neil considers his trusts and estates practice “high touch” and “high tech.” The “high touch” part of his practice includes personal contact with clients learning about their family and financial information and understanding their estate planning goals. The “high tech” part of his practice involves the use of the Firm’s state of the art will and trust document system to produce quality documents in a timely manner at a reasonable cost.

 

In assisting his clients with tax planning for family wealth transfers, Neil employs the most advanced planning techniques and strategies. Work for clients that he has recently completed includes the use of GRATs, installment sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts, family limited partnerships and family limited liability companies, QPRTs, and CRUTs. Neil also has experience in life insurance planning and the use of ILITs, planning for distributions from retirement plans and IRAs, and the use of Dynasty Trusts for GST tax planning. Neil’s probate practice includes representing individual and corporate executors and trustees in estate tax audits and tax controversy matters.