Please click on any of the following practice areas to learn more about the exceptional services we provide:

Estate Planning and Probate
Business Law

When we handle your case, you can rest assured that your case is in the best of hands. Every client and every case is important to us. We welcome your questions and feedback and strive for your complete satisfaction.

Estate Planning and Probate

Our estate planning practice focuses on helping clients achieve comprehensive estate planning goals and to maximize participation in tax incentives. We provide counsel and representation from the most traditional level of estate planning to individuals and closely held businesses to the most advanced level of tax-saving strategies. In addition to tax planning we also handle the probate of estates and administration of trusts. Whatever your needs, we can formulate a plan that addresses them:

Learn more about Estate Planning

Basic Estate Planning

• Wills
• Outright marital gifts
• Outright gifts to children
• Trusts for children
• Ancillary documents
• Durable or general powers of attorney
• Medical powers of attorney
• Living wills (medical directives)
• Determining a guardian for children

Intermediate Estate and Tax Planning

• Pour-over wills
• Revocable trusts (living trusts)
• Marital deduction trusts
• Qualified domestic trust (non-U.S. citizens)
• Credit shelter trusts
• Life insurance planning
• Irrevocable life insurance trusts
• Crummey trusts
• Gifts to minors
• 2503(c) trusts
• Education planning
• Direct gifts for medical and education expenses
• Retirement planning
• Liquidity and tax payment issues
• Prenuptial planning

Advanced Estate Planning

• Gifting Strategies
  
  
  • Annual exclusion
  • Lifetime exemption
  • Gift splitting
    
• Second-Generation Planning
  
  
  • Generation-skipping transfer tax and exemption planning
  • Dynasty trust
    
• Charitable Planning
  
  
  • Charitable gifts
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Charitable lead trusts
  • Private foundations
  • Public foundations
  • Supporting organizations
    
• Closely Held Businesses
  
  
  • Succession planning
  • Buy-sell agreements
    
• Estate Freezing
  
  
  • Family limited partnerships
  • Limited liability companies
  • Grantor retained annuity trusts
  • Sale to defective trusts
  • Installment sales
  • Private annuities
  • Qualified personal residence trust

Business Law

At Goedert, Huntington & DeBoer we assist our clients in their commercial business activities, including the formation and operation of corporations, partnerships and other business entities, the interrelationship between our clients and other businesses and government agencies. For more information, click on an area of interest below:

Business and Commercial Transactional Law
Business Counseling and Advice

Business and Commercial Transactional Law

We provide a wide variety of transactional services to our business clients, including:

• Documenting and advising clients in real estate purchase/sale contracts, commercial leasing
  
  
• Buying and selling businesses and business interests, including stock and asset purchases and sales
  
  
• Structuring and documenting clients' choice of business entity: corporation, limited liability company, general or limited partnership, or joint venture
  
  
• Developing alternative forms of ownership and management of the start-up entity, including: voting and non-voting common stock, convertible preferred stock, warrants and similar rights; and specialized LLC provisions
  
  
• Drafting and reviewing employment agreements, qualified and non-qualified stock options, phantom stock, bonus and profit sharing agreements; employee nondisclosure, invention assignments, non-competition, and non-solicitation agreements
  
  
• Drafting and reviewing stockholder agreements, including cross-purchase, redemption, insurance-funded buyout, voting trusts
  
  
• Drafting and reviewing license and royalty agreements (both patented and non-patented technologies); research and development agreements; employee confidentiality, invention and non-competition agreements; distribution, sales, manufacturing and joint venture agreements
  
  
• Structuring and advising clients in business recapitalizations, redemptions and reorganizations

Business Counseling and Advice

We have substantial experience counseling businesses and individuals on matters including:

• Compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations
  
  
• Employee handbooks and policies
  
  
• Alternate forms of entity for new and growing businesses
  
  
• Business succession planning
  
  
• Business and employment contracts
  
  
• Contract review and complex negotiations related to commercial lending, real estate and equipment leasing, technology licensing and transfers, the purchase and sale of businesses, employment issues and other contractual arrangements

Goedert, Huntington & DeBoer
1011 Lake Street, Suite 303
Oak Park, Illinois 60301
Telephone: 708-848-6066
Fax: 708-848-6067
Email: ghd@ameritech.net