Alison’s practice focuses on estate and tax planning for high net worth individuals, their families, and their businesses. She advises clients on advanced estate planning techniques to minimize income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
In addition, she counsels fiduciaries and beneficiaries with respect to planning opportunities for trusts and estates and the resolution of disputes.
Alison also represents individuals and small businesses in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. She successfully represents clients under audit and at the appellate level involving a broad range of tax disputes.
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Family Gift Planning — Perhaps the Best Time Is Now
October 19, 2020 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Susan Kealy, Alison Glover, Quinn Hetrick
The lifetime federal tax exemption for gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes is scheduled to be reduced to approximately $6 million on January 1, 2026, from $11.58 million per individual or $23.16 million collectively for a married couple. Many believe, however, that the outcome of the upcoming election could accelerate the timing of this change and that the decrease could become effective as soon as January 1, 2021.
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Favorable Changes to Estate, Gift and GST Tax Laws Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
February 1, 2018 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Susan Kealy, Alison Glover, Quinn Hetrick
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), signed into law on December 22, 2017, significantly increased the exemption amounts for the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. These increases may present planning opportunities for individuals and families.
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News & Press
Twenty-Eight Mintz Attorneys Named To Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers List
November 22, 2022
In its second annual edition, 28 Mintz attorneys were named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers list.
Mintz Announces Nine Newly Elevated Members
December 17, 2020
Events & Speaking
Speaker
Oct
23
2018
How Estate Planners, Fiduciaries, & Litigators “Fix” Trusts
Boston Bar Association - 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Speaker
Feb
8
2017
Non-Judicial Settlement Agreements – How are they being used
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Speaker
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Oct
18
2016
Planning for Contested Estates: Estate Planning Strategies to Avoid (or Prevail In) Litigation
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Recognition & Awards
- Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: Selected for the Women's Leadership Program (2014)
- Boston Magazine Top Lawyers – Trusts and Estates (2021)
Involvement
- Co-Chair, Tax Law Updates Committee of the Boston Bar Association
- Member, Professional Advisors Network, The Boston Foundation
- Member, Boston Estate Planning Council
- Member, Trusts & Estates Consortium
- Founding Member and Co-Chair, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Friends Council Young Professionals Committee
Recent Insights
In its second annual edition, 28 Mintz attorneys were named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers list.
