Eaton & Van Winkle's Trusts & Estates Group provides sophisticated trust and estate and tax planning services to domestic and foreign high net worth individuals, fiduciaries and charitable organizations. 

With estate and gift taxes at rates substantially above the income tax rate, our attorneys help our clients to achieve their personal estate planning goals while reducing the impact of taxes upon their estates to the fullest extent possible.

The Trusts & Estates Group handles all aspects of establishment and administration of trusts and decedents' estates, guardianships, conservator ships and other fiduciary arrangements, including tax counseling and tax return preparation. Our attorneys work closely with private banking and trust departments of many large banks and trust companies in New York and with many others around the world.

We also counsel clients regarding long term care arrangements and insurance, living wills, health care proxies and the use of durable and standby powers of attorney.

Our estate planning attorneys are experienced in international matters. Partners of the firm have dealt extensively with foreign trusts and foreign trust administration and are active in international estate planning. We represent clients from places as distant as Hong Kong, Hawaii, the Bahamas and Geneva.

The Trusts & Estates Group represents a number of private charitable foundations and their managers and has obtained and maintained recognition of their tax exempt status.