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Steve Brainerd is a partner in the firm’s Income Tax, Employee Benefits & Estates Group. For twenty years, he has assisted individuals and families with careful, tax-sensitive planning for the protection and transfer of their estates. His practice has involved the preparation of all levels of testamentary and trust documents, including instruments designed to implement lifetime gifting programs. Mr. Brainerd has special expertise in matters ranging from title and conveyance issues, to planning problems facing non-U.S. citizens, to sophisticated charitable giving techniques. In connection with the firm’s Corporate Group, he also assists in planning for the succession of family owned businesses and the creation of entities to facilitate the transfer of family wealth.
In representing executors and trustees, Mr. Brainerd has worked in every phase of probate, estate litigation, family dispute resolution, estate taxation, and fiduciary incom taxation. He has represented many of the region’s major banks and trust companies in matters involving fiduciary risk management, tax reporting obligations and litigation. Mr. Brainerd has also assisted some of Colorado’s most prominent charitable organizations with the development of their planned giving programs and the protection of their rights in charitable contributions.
Mr. Brainerd takes particular pride in understanding and working with the goals, issues and dynamics that are unique to each family. His fundamental aim is to preserve family relationships and resources throughout both prosperity and misfortune.
Mr. Brainerd is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and has served as an adjunct professor of Trusts and Estates Law at the University of Denver College of Law. He has been named in both (2006 and 2007) publications of Colorado Super Lawyers by Law and Politics Magazine, and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America.
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