Alfred M. Falk
(253) 284-4413
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Practice: Business, Trusts and Estates.
Experience: Al Falk's practice focuses on estate planning and trust and estate administration. He also advises owners of closely-held businesses. Al helps people plan the disposition of their estates, anticipate incapacity and end-of-life issues, protect their assets (for them and their heirs), and reduce gift tax, estate tax, and generation-skipping transfer tax burdens.
He has extensive experience with family partnerships, retirement account beneficiary designations, life insurance planning using trusts and funding arrangements, lifetime giving programs using direct gifts and trusts, charitable giving (including the use of private foundations), and advising executors, trustees and beneficiaries about their rights and responsibilities.
Al
also helps
business owners arrange for the succession of management and
ownership of family-owned businesses
and put together shareholder, partnership, and LLC agreements that
spell out in
advance what happens if one of the owners should die
or want to get out of the business.
Education:
Bachelor
of Arts degree (Economics) from the University of Washington
Juris
Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law
Master of Laws degree
(Taxation) from the University of Florida College of Law.
Affiliations, Publications and Honors:
Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate
Counsel (and its State Laws Committee)
Past Chair Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of
the Washington State Bar Association
Past president of the
Tacoma Estate Planning Council
Past
chair of the WSBA Business Law Section
Member,
WSBA Tax Section's Estate & Gift Tax Committee
Speaker at numerous professional
seminars and author of several professional articles
Member Editorial Board for the WSBA Probate Deskbook
Actively
involved in the drafting and passage of trust and estate related
legislation in Washington
Designated a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law
& Politics for the last several years
Selected to be
included in recent editions of "The Best Lawyers in America."
Pleased
to see Harlowe & Falk receive its second consecutive First-Tier
Ranking in Trusts &
Estates Law in Seattle area in the U.S. News
annual ranking of Best Law Firms
