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Legal Secretary: Estella Aliotta
TEL: 201-489-3000 ext. 5086
ealiotta@coleschotz.com

Steve Saraisky’s practice encompasses all phases of business planning, tax and estate planning, and estate administration. 

Mr. Saraisky regularly advises clients regarding their estate planning and the gift, estate and generation-skipping tax considerations of their plans.  Frequently, this involves complex estate planning with Wills, insurance trusts and the implementation of sophisticated estate planning techniques.  Mr. Saraisky advises many international clients regarding the US aspects of their planning.

Mr. Saraisky’s practice also includes (1) working with business owners regarding all phases of their businesses, (2) representing taxpayers in numerous tax audits and administrative appeals, (3) contested estate matters, including advising executors, trustees and beneficiaries with respect to estate or trust administration and fiduciary issues, (4) advising private foundations and public charities regarding operational and tax issues and (5) estate administration.

Mr. Saraisky is a frequent lecturer and author on estate and tax planning, estate administration, business succession planning and related issues.

Presentations

• "Fundamentals of Drafting Trusts," 2011 ICLE Seminar
• "Trust Decanting:  Esoteric Theory or Useful Planning Tool?" 2009 ICLE Seminar
• "Basic Testamentary Estate Tax Planning," co-author Judson Stein, 2008 ICLE seminar
• "Succession Planning in Closely-Held Businesses -- A Practice Guide," 2007 ICLE seminar

• "New Jersey Enacts B Corporation Law," New Jersey Law Journal, June 27, 2011
• Ask A Lawyer: How to Transfer Sales to a Child, The Record, June 3, 2010
• Structuring a Foreigner's Purchase of U.S. Situs Real Estate, New Jersey Law Journal, March 29, 2010
• Simple Goals in a Complex World, The Hedge Fund Law Report, March 18, 2010
• Estate Planning With Real Estate: Special Issues and Potential Pitfalls, New Jersey Law Journal, November 9, 2009
• Ask A Lawyer: A Loan to Finance Life Insurance, The Record, August 27, 2009
• Low Interest Rates Make Sales to Grantor Trusts Attractive for Business Succession Planning, Cole Schotz Docket, Fall 2008
• Ask A Lawyer: Terms of Buyout Should Be Made Clear, The Record, September 23, 2008
• Building Flexibility Into Irrevocable Trusts, New Jersey Law Journal, September 1, 2008
• Ask A Lawyer: Assessing Need for Disability Insurance, The Record, August 14, 2007
• Ask A Lawyer: Structure of Business Sale Has Tax Impact, The Record, June 19, 2007
• Thinking About Selling?, Cole Schotz Docket, Spring 2007

• IRS Retreats on Employer-Provided Cell Phones, Tax, Trust's & Estates Law Monitor
• New York Follows IRS in Eliminating Two Year Time Limit on Innocent Spouse Equitable Relief Claims, Tax, Trusts & Estates Law Monitor
• Tax Court Finds FLP Assets Includible in Decedent's Estate but Permits Faulty Crummey Gifts to Qualify for Annual Exclusion, Tax, Trusts & Estates Law Monitor
• New York Trust Decanting Law Substantially Revised, Tax, Trusts & Estates Law Monitor
• The Return of GRAT Restrictions, Tax, Trusts & Estates Law Monitor, July 12, 2011

• ABA International Private Client Committee, co-chairman
• Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council, board member
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Bergen County Bar Association