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For more than a half-century, prominent families and business leaders in Minnesota and throughout the Midwest have put their trust in Maslon to help them achieve their estate planning goals. That's because our noted Estate Planning team—one of Minnesota's most highly regarded—values helping people. We leverage our collective experience and strong commitment to client service to offer sophisticated, practical and responsive wealth-transfer counsel, including wealth preservation, estate planning and business-succession planning.

Our attorneys are devoted to understanding your concerns and helping you maximize the impact of your assets—and actively participate in the development of tax and wealth transfer policy through precedent-setting court rulings and legislative initiatives. We also author noteworthy articles on legal trends, speak at national conferences, participate on nonprofit and community boards, and serve as adjunct professors at top law schools—all of which enriches our experience and positions us to better serve our clients.

To find out more about the breadth of our estate planning services, contact one of our attorneys directly.

Minnesota Wills for Heroes
Maslon is proud to play a strong supporting role in the success of Minnesota Wills for Heroes, an organization created to provide quality, no-cost estate-planning services to the families of the state's first responders—EMTs, police, firefighters and more—who daily risk their lives to help others. Susan Link currently serves as program director for the organization.

• New Estate Tax Bill Restricts Minority Interest Discounts (February 2009)

• Maslon's Estate Planning Glossary
• Raising Financially Responsible Children: A Conversation with Charles W. Collier
  Wealth simply adds another dimension to the already complex challenge of raising healthy, happy, motivated and emotionally balanced children. Read the views of Harvard Senior Philanthropic Adviser Charles Collier in this informative whitepaper provided by The Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch.
• Probate and Planning: A Guide to Planning for the Future
  From the Office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson
• Social Security Calculator
  Find out how much you will receive in Social Security each month from Uncle Sam by using the calculator on this site. If your earnings record has been erratic, you may want to try the Social Security's year-by-year income assumptions.
• Federal and State Estate Tax Exemptions Amounts Chart