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  Trusts and Estates


Adam W. Kiracofe / Associate
Professional Experience
Adam Kiracofe focuses his practice on estate planning and wealth preservation strategies for affluent individuals, corporate executives, small business owners and other professionals. His recent work experience includes:
  • Counseling individuals regarding estate planning matters, including marital property considerations.

  • Drafting estate plans, including wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney for health care and durable financial powers of attorney.

  • Implementing techniques to protect generational wealth from the claims of creditors and from division of assets in the event of divorce.

  • Designing sophisticated gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning strategies to minimize the tax burden of intergenerational wealth shifts, including installment sales to grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and qualified personal residence trusts.

  • Employing tax efficient planning strategies for retirement benefits and life insurance.

  • Representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the settlement of estates and administration of trusts.
Education and Honors
  • Boston University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2004)
    • Boston University Law Review (Editor-in-Chief).
    • Recipient of the School of Law’s Dr. John Ordronaux Prize, “the highest distinction awarded by the school of law, given annually to the member of the graduating class who has shown the greatest overall ability, character and conduct.”

  • Luther College (B.A., 2000)
    • Men’s Varsity Basketball (Letter Winner).

Bar Admissions
Wisconsin, 2004

Professional and Civic Activities
  • President’s Advisory Council of Froedtert Hospital (Member).

  • Honorable Jerry L. Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court (Law Clerk, 2004-2005).

  • American Bar Association (Member).

  • State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).

  • Milwaukee Bar Association (Member).
Selected Presentations/Publications
  • Co-author, “BEWARE: The Foreign Trust Tax Trap,” Probate & Property (Forthcoming 2010).

  • ”The Codified Canons of Statutory Construction: A Response and Proposal to Nicholas Rosenkranz’s Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation," 84 B.U.L. Rev. 571 (2004).