Michael P. Vito — Member at Lowenstein Sandler

Mr. Michael P. Vito is employed at Lowenstein Sandler PC in the position of Member in the Tax practice. Mr. Vito practices in the areas of tax, estate planning and estate administration and is a member of the firm's Trusts & Estates Practice Group. He is routinely involved in tax analysis regarding complex issues in federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax and income tax planning for trusts and estates. Mr. Vito is experienced in preparing various estate planning instruments, including wills, insurance trusts, living trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, durable powers of attorney and advance directives for health care. Mr. Vito's planning practice also encompasses asset planning involving family limited partnerships and tax-exempt organizations such as family foundations. In addition, Mr. Vito counsels executors and trustees in fulfilling their fiduciary duties in administering decedents' estates and trusts. His estate administration practice includes probate proceedings, preparing estate and inheritance tax returns, handling estate and inheritance tax audits and preparing documents necessary to effect interim and final distributions from an estate or trust, be it via a formal court accounting action or by informal settlement agreement and release. From 2006-2011, Mr. Vito was recognized as a Rising Star in Super Lawyers magazine.