Frank T Adams

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Estate Planning, Administration & Probate

At Katz Barron, we share our clients' desire to preserve and protect hard-earned assets. The firm's Estate Planning, Administration and Probate Group advises U.S. and foreign clients on estate planning and wealth protection to minimize estate, gift and generation skipping taxes, and to achieve their gift and inheritance objectives. Our work includes the planning and creation of trusts, wills, family partnerships, and revocable and irrevocable domestic and offshore trusts, and pre-nuptial agreements, as well as the planning and transferring of ownership and control of closely held and family owned businesses.

The group also represents clients in significant estate and gift tax controversies, including business valuations.

Our attorneys routinely handle complex and adversarial situations arising in the administration of trusts and probate estates at all levels, including complex probate litigation.
* Estate Planning
* Charitable Gift Planning
* Trust Administration
* Estate and Gift Tax Controversies
* Probate Administration
* Summary Probate Procedures
* Pre-Nuptial Agreements
* Family and Matrimonial Issues

Board Certified Attorney, Wills, Trusts & Estates - Florida Bar

Fellow - American College of Trust & Estate Counsel

Frank T Adams
Katz, Barron, Squitero, Faust, Friedberg, Grady, English & Allen P.A
100 NE 3rd Ave #280
Fort Lauderdale FL 33301-1165
Tel: 954 522-3636
Fax: 954 522-5119
E-mail: fta@katzbarron.com

Areas Of Practice:
* Trusts and Estates Planning
* Estate Administration and Probate
* Business Continuation Planning
* Probate and Trust Litigation
* Charitable Trusts and Foundations
* Negotiating and Drafting Marital Agreements
* Corporate and Business Planning
* Pre-immigration Tax Planning

Frank Adams is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is an AV-rated attorney, and is Board Certified in Wills, Trusts and Estates. Frank practices primarily in sophisticated estate planning and administration, including wills; revocable and irrevocable trusts; probate; estate, gift and generation-skipping taxation; probate litigation; planning for charitable contributions and charitable foundations; asset protection planning; and planning for distributions from IRAs and other qualified retirement plans.

His experience also includes planning for closely held businesses, including formation, operation and planning for the dissolution or sale of all types of business entities. In business planning, Frank also assists families in succession of ownership and control matters and the drafting and implementation of buy/sell agreements. Frank also counsels individuals concerning prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

Representative Experience
* Primary responsibility for all aspects of the administration of decedents' estates, including preparation of Federal tax returns and the audit of those returns by the Internal Revenue Service. Some of those estates have been as great as $75 million and owned assets as diverse as a controlling interest in a publicly traded company, a stable of thoroughbred race horses, and the copyright interests of a major American playwright.
* Preparation and implementation of estate plans for individuals and families with both U.S. and foreign situs assets. Those plans involve planning for minimizing income, estate, gift and generations-skipping tax. The assets owned by those individuals and families encompass almost every type of asset, and have ranged in value to more than $1 billion.
* Charitable planning for families, obtaining tax-exempt status for the entities established and representation of the resulting private or public charities. Significant experience in obtaining tax-exempt status for religious and educational institutions and foundations in support of hospitals, and the subsequent representation of those entities.
* Representation of beneficiaries in will contests, construction proceedings, and actions to amend, reform or terminate trusts or replace trustees.
* Significant experience in representing corporations and their shareholders in business succession and continuation planning, often involving complex issues of valuation.