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Quinn R. Hetrick

Associate

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+1.617.348.4408

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Quinn’s practice centers around estate, tax, and business succession planning. He provides personalized advice to high-net-worth individuals and their families on their most confidential and sensitive matters. Quinn assists business owners, executives, professional athletes, entertainers, and family offices with complex estate planning, gifting, tax, and other sophisticated wealth preservation strategies, all tailored to meet his clients’ family and succession objectives.

Quinn also advises owners of closely-held businesses on a diverse range of corporate matters, ensuring that the business aligns seamlessly with a client’s overall succession or exit plans. Examples include negotiating buy/sell cross-purchase agreements, structuring LLC agreements, planning for involuntary transfers due to death or divorce, and working towards involving the next generation in managing the family business.

As part of Mintz’s Probate and Fiduciary Litigation team, Quinn represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in all aspects of probate, trust, and other contentious fiduciary matters.

Prior to joining Mintz, Quinn specialized in international tax as an associate at a Big 4 accounting firm, served as a law clerk in the trusts and estates group of a law firm, and clerked at the Massachusetts Division of Administrative Law Appeals. While earning his law degree at Boston College Law School, Quinn was the editor-in-chief of the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest.

Quinn is an Eagle Scout and is an active member of the Boston Estate Planning Council and Boston Bar Association.

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How can a trustee balance the interests of various beneficiaries while also faithfully discharging their responsibilities under the terms of the trust and governing law? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently offered guidance on a specific power granted to trustees: the power to reclassify trust assets between principal and income.  The SJC’s decision should give trustees comfort in their authority to make discretionary decisions, but it also articulates important considerations when doing so to ensure trustees remain and appear impartial.
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Read about compliance deadlines associated with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), types of entities subject to CTA reporting requirements, information required in a BOI report, and filing requirements for BOI reports.

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In this alert, we discuss the reporting entities, information to be reported, ongoing reporting requirements, and additional considerations applicable to estate planning clients.

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Read about a Massachusetts tax relief package recently signed into law, which subjects only estate assets above $2 million to state-level estate tax and makes several changes to Massachusetts income tax laws.

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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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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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Mintz is pleased to announce that 31 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 35 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2024.

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Mintz is pleased to announce that 32 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 27 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2023.

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35 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 25 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2022.

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Recognition & Awards

  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star (2021-2024)

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Involvement

  • Member, Boston Bar Association
  • Member, Boston Estate Planning Council
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