About Steger Law Firm
Experienced Business Lawyers
We can assist you with all of your business law and tax needs, including:
- Corporate and Transactional Law, including Business Formation and Reorganizations, LLCs, C corps and S-corps, Partnerships
- Non-Profits
- Mergers and Reorganizations, Liquidations, and Entity Conversions, Contracts
- Buy-Sell Agreements
- Employment Agreements
- Lease Agreements
- Family Loans and Gifts
- Business Sales and Purchases.
We also assist clients with Asset Protection Planning, including:
- Family Business and Investment Entities
- Dissolution of the Community Property Regime to protect marital assets,
- Asset Protection Trusts, LLCs and other business entities.
Tax Controversies
We have experience representing clients on tax matters in court and before the IRS and state revenue agencies.
Our experience includes negotiating with the IRS and state revenue agencies in resolving tax controversies, both at the audit level and in subsequent appeals, often securing very substantial reductions in the taxes claimed, ranging from corporate income taxes to federal trust fund taxes to personal income taxes, Tax Settlements (Offers in Compromise), and Installment Agreements.
We also offer Tax Consulting, including Tax Reduction Strategies, Individual Income Tax Consulting, Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Consulting, Partnership Tax Consulting, Estate Tax Consulting, Tax Consulting for Income Tax on Trusts and Estates.
Estate Planning
We can also help you with all of your estate planning needs, including:
- Wills, including wills with and without personal servitudes and testamentary trusts.
- Trusts, including Marital Trusts, Living Trusts, Charitable Trusts, Grantor Trusts, Life Insurance Trusts, Subchapter S Trusts, Residence Trusts, Forced Heirship Trusts, Spendthrift Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, Asset Protection Trusts, and Generation Skipping Trusts.
- Incapacity Planning, including General Powers of Attorney, Medical Powers of Attorney, Medical Directives (Living Wills), Medicaid Planning, and Curatorship Proceedings.
- Advanced Estate Planning, including Estate Freeze Strategies, Discounting and Gifting Strategies, Crummey Trusts, Sales to Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts, Family LLCs, Private Annuities, and Private Foundations.
- Probate and Estate Administration, including Opening Succession and Preparation of Succession Pleadings, Avoiding Probate, Representation of Forced Heirs, Death Tax Planning, Renunciations and Disclaimers, Estate and Trust Income Tax Return Preparation, Defending and Asserting Will Contests, Incapacity, and Undue Influence, and Representation of Succession Representatives.