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Christopher Deziel
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| Title: |
Partner |
| Industry: |
Legal |
| Type of Organization: |
Law Firm |
| Major Product/Service: |
Legal services |
| Expertise: |
Mr. Deziel has 20 years experience. He serves as a Partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group. Mr. Deziel's practice focuses strictly in the areas of trust and estate law and Surrogate’s Court practice, including the complex areas of estate and trust administration, fiduciary accounting, estate and gift taxation, post-mortem estate planning, estate and gift tax audit representation and estate litigation. He provides counsel to executors, trustees and beneficiaries regarding a myriad of issues ranging from the entitlements of income and principal beneficiaries to the complex interrelationships between tax accounting, business entity accounting and estate and trust accounting. He advises executors and trustees of their fiduciary obligations under the New Uniform Principal and Income Act, and their investment responsibilities under the Prudent Investor Rule. Mr. Deziel has successfully litigated matters involving estate tax apportionment, calculation of marital elective shares, trust terminations, abuses of trustee’s discretion as well as fixing and determining deferred annuities of testamentary charitable remainder trusts. |
| Geographic Area of Distribution: |
National |
| Affiliations: |
Trust and Estate Section, New York State Bar Association; Probate and Real Property and Taxation sections, American Bar Association; Nassau County Bar Association; Suffolk County Bar Association; Queens County Bar Associations |
| University/Degree: |
B.S., Social Sciences, Hofstra University, 1982; J.D., Vermont Law School,1986 |
| Published Works: |
The Nassau Lawyer; Numerous articles; Lectured extensively on a variety of estate, trust and fiduciary accounting topics; Regular lecturer with Lorman Education Services |
