Dennis I Belcher
Trusts & Estates
Estate Planning
McGuireWoods lawyers serve individual clients who seek to transfer assets efficiently to their chosen beneficiaries. As a part of our private client and estate planning services, we also consider the impact of federal income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes on the transmission of wealth. We often help our clients achieve tax savings by establishing trusts for the benefit of family members. We also advise our clients about the many forms of charitable giving that may be used to reduce taxes.
Planning of this nature includes providing for the special needs of family members, protecting the family assets, and assuring professional management of these assets. We also assist with premarital and marital dissolution planning.
Our lawyers assist our business clients in transferring ownership and control of their businesses efficiently, using restrictive shareholder and partnership agreements, reorganization of corporations, operating agreements of LLCs, and a variety of other strategies.
Estate Administration
We advise executors and trustees about administration of estates and trusts and guide them in all aspects of fulfilling their responsibilities, including advice on income taxation of estates and trusts as well as gift and estate taxation.
We represent clients in resolving will disputes, interpreting wills and trusts, and related litigation.
Dennis I Belcher
McGuireWoods LLP
1 James Center
901 E Cary St
Richmond VA 23219-4030
Tel: 804 775-4304
Fax: 804 698-2012
E-mail: dbelcher@mcguirewoods.com
Accredited Estate Planner (Distinguished) - National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
Practices & Industries
* Private Wealth Services
* Trusts & Estates
* Fiduciary Litigation
* Sports Law
Mr. Belcher routinely represents high-net worth individuals, families and family offices on a variety of sensitive and complex estate and business planning matters. He also focuses his practice on estate and trust administration, charitable planning, and sensitive fiduciary litigation and dispute resolution.
Mr. Belcher is past president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and was previously chair of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section. He is a member of the Advisory Committee and a frequent speaker at the Heckerling Institute of Estate Planning sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law, ALI-ABA estate planning seminars, and numerous other seminars. He is a trustee of the Southern Federal Tax Institute and a member of the advisory board of BNA Tax Management, Estate, Gifts and Trusts magazine. In addition, he has been listed in Town & Country magazine as one of the top 45 estate planning lawyers in the United States.
For the past several years, Chambers & Partners has recognized Mr. Belcher in its national editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, where he was cited as "phenomenal" and known by his peers as being "technically excellent with good judgment," with another client saying, "he's the sort of guy you want in the trenches with you." McGuireWoods' Private Wealth Services Group is one of only two law firms in the country to receive Chambers' highest national ranking for wealth management.
He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee on estate tax reform and the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures on patenting of tax strategies. On several occasions, Mr. Belcher has been called upon to offer analysis for a number of national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time magazine, USA Today, Worth magazine, Trusts and Estates magazine, the American Bar Association Journal, Fidelity Investor's Weekly, Business Week, The Daily Tax Report, Bloomberg magazine, and National Underwriter.
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