Raleigh,
NC
Elizabeth K. Arias provides a wide array of estate planning, fiduciary litigation, tax planning, and private wealth services to clients who are seeking to strategically manage their wealth in a way that allows them achieve their estate planning goals and objectives and to do so as tax efficiently as possible. Areas in which she regularly advises clients include use of irrevocable trusts, including modification and termination of existing trusts; gifting strategies; complex estate planning; formation of limited liability companies (LLCs), family limited partnerships, or other closely held family businesses; succession planning for family businesses; formation of charitable trusts and charitable foundations; international estate planning for U.S. citizens, non-citizens, and non-residents who own assets in the United States; fiduciary litigation, including will and trust disputes and caveats and breach of fiduciary duty claims; split-dollar life insurance; income and estate taxation; and generational planning, including dynasty trusts. Ms. Arias is a member of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council (ACTEC) and a past chair of the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is an active member of the Legislative Committee for the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law section with more than 15 years of experience assisting in drafting North Carolina’s trusts and estate legislation. She is listed in “Best Lawyers in America,” including Lawyer of the Year in 2015 in “Litigation: Trusts and Estates,” was named one of the 100 Top lawyers in North Carolina in “Super Lawyers,” and was named by “Business North Carolina” as one of its Legal Elite.
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