Mike Durkin Email & Phone Number

Mike Durkin, the leader of Pedersen & Houpt's Wealth Preservation Practice Group, focuses his practice on estate planning, probate, and taxation.Mike advises a diverse group of entrepreneurs, professionals, executives, and their families on estate planning matters. It is by recognizing each client's unique set of objectives and issues that he is able to develop individualized, tax-efficient estate plans that preserve and conserve clients' assets for subsequent generations. When appropriate, Mike employs such targeted strategies as living trusts, split interest charitable trusts, irrevocable insurance trusts, and generation-skipping trusts to meet specific client goals.He devises and drafts unique trust provisions to help clients meet unusual needs and plan for exceptional contingencies. He has created special needs trusts for developmentally disabled children. Mike has also helped families plan for the long-term oversight and management of such investment assets as a family business or art collection.For clients wishing to establish charitable giving plans, charitable foundations, and charitable remainder trusts, Mike formulates plans that honor client wishes for generations to come.For business owners, Mike regularly crafts strategically sound succession plans that will pass control of their businesses to other family members and colleagues.Mike brings an exceptional level of experience to his handling of all aspects of probate administration, including planning for complex tax elections and resolving contested issues.

Listed skills include Estate Planning, Trusts, Estate Tax Planning, Estate Administration, and 11 others.

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  Partner

  Pedersen & Houpt

  Feb 2007 - Present

  Mike Durkin, the leader of Pedersen & Houpt's Wealth Preservation Practice Group, focuses his practice on estate planning, probate, and taxation.