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A helping hand with accountability

Miles C. Padgett, Partner

October 8, 2012

7 Min Read
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Two factors are converging to cause certain clients to consider creating family banks in 2012.  The first is the phenomenal success of estate-freezing gift strategies (primarily, grantor retained annuity trusts and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts) that were put in place during the early months of 2009. The success of those strategies has caused a shift of assets to children from parents that has far exceeded expectations and, in many cases, has left parents satisfied that their children are provided for in all events.  The second is the ability to make direct, simple gifts of up to $5 million per donor, free of gift and generation-skipping (GST) taxes, for the remainder of this year.  Many of those clients who believe th...

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About the Author

Miles C. Padgett

Partner

http://www.kozlaw.com/

Miles has assisted clients in planning for their estates, varying in value from $10 million to over $4 billion and consisting of assets such as commercial real estate holdings, closely-held stock, non-qualified compensation, well-known art work, and high-value scenic real estate.  Miles has also assisted clients in establishing private trust companies (and other private fiduciary companies) for complex families and trust networks to create user-friendly and family goal-specific organizations.  


Miles writes and speaks on a wide variety of tax and wealth management topics.  

Miles was a founding member of the firm Kozusko Harris Vetter Wareh Duncan LLP, and resigned from the partnership in 2004 to join the financial services community.  After spending over 5 years as an investment consultant with Convergent Wealth Advisors, where he was a director in its Investment Strategy Group focusing on asset allocation and manager search and selection, Miles re-joined the firm as a partner in December 2009.

Miles earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.  In addition to being a lawyer, Miles holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) designation, from the Investment Management Consultants Association in conjunction with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.