A Nichole Cipriani

Nichole Cipriani devotes her practice to estate and tax planning and estate administration.  Nichole assists individuals and families with a broad range of estate and tax planning, including business succession planning, special needs and disability planning, and international estate planning.  To that end, she is experienced in preparing wills, insurance trusts, revocable trusts, qualified domestic trusts, grantor-retained annunity trusts, charitable trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, special needs trusts, supplemental benefits trusts, durable powers of attorney, and advance directives for health care.  Nichole's planning practice also encompasses asset planning involving family limited partnerships and tax-exempt organizations such as family foundations.

In addition, Nichole counsels executors and trustees in administering estates and trusts.  Her practice includes probate proceedings, preparing estate and inheritance tax returns, handling estate and inheritance tax audits and preparing refunding bonds and releases and waivers to effect interim and final distributions from an estate or trust.

Nichole has extensive experience representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, preparing filings for individuals and legal entities, including Forms 706, 709, 990 and 1041, drafting and filing Tax Court petitions and Private Letter Ruling requests, and negotiating Innocent Spouse relief.