Practices - Estates, Wills and Trusts 

Masano ♦ Bradley provides estate planning for clients and their families as well as estate and trust administration. In addition to our attorneys, Masano ♦ Bradley employs experienced estate paralegals to assist with compassion in handling the many details of probate and estate administration. We can help in the following ways with estate planning: 

• Family limited partnerships 
• Credit shelter trusts 
• Grantor-retained annuity trusts 
• Personal residence trusts 
• Dynasty trusts and other generation-skipping transfers 
• Irrevocable life insurance trusts (for individual life coverage as well as second-to-die/survivorship coverage), including thorough evaluation of the underlying life insurance 
• Charitable remainder and lead trusts 
• Private charitable foundations 
• Private annuities
• Special Needs Trusts

Masano ♦ Bradley attorneys are actively involved in all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts, including sophisticated postmortem tax planning, death tax return preparation/audit defense and probate court administration/litigation. Our attorneys will provide professional assistance with the following: 
 

• Probate court proceedings ranging from initial probate proceedings to final court accounting including complete audit and preparation of fiduciary tax returns 
• Planning and preparation of gift tax returns and death tax returns 
• Maintenance of records for estates and trusts as well as for individuals 
• Probate court litigation 
• Administration of sophisticated estate plans and Special Needs Trusts

Questions regarding our Estates, Wills & Trusts practice may be directed to our Wyomissing Office.