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Lessons from the Trenches 2.0: Avoiding Family Disputes over Money, Estates, and Businesses

January 26, 2022 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Lessons from the Trenches 2.0: Avoiding Family Disputes over Money, Estates, and Businesses

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Gaslowitz Frankel partners Adam Gaslowitz, Craig Frankel, and Robert Port discuss how to avoid family disputes over money, estates, and businesses.

About Gaslowitz Frankel:

Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.

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Harnessing Your Family’s Human and Intellectual Capital: The Key to Sustaining Wealth for Generations

October 27, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Harnessing Your Family’s Human and Intellectual Capital: The Key to Sustaining Wealth for Generations

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Natalie Smailes/Director of Governance, Center for Family Legacy at Truist

Natalie Smailes joined Truist Wealth in 2015 and is a Senior Vice President and the Managing Director of Strategic Client Development within the Center for Family Legacy. Natalie works with the Center for Family Legacy team to deliver the full breadth of Governance and Education to new Truist Wealth clients. Natalie introduces clients to the Center for Family Legacy’s proprietary tools and processes specifically designed to help families increase their chances of sustaining wealth over generations. Natalie will work alongside GenSpring’s wealth advisors as they help clients identify wealth objectives and develop appropriate methods for governing their shared assets.

In addition to this role, Natalie is the lead coordinator of the Truist Wealth Reserve offering. Natalie works across the firm to educate partners about the delivery of family meetings and the education programs, working with the Center for Legacy governance and education teams to manage and implement the effort.

Michael Covington/Trust Advisor at Truist

As a Trust Advisor, Michael Covington helps his clients take a comprehensive, strategic approach to financial planning even in the early stages of asset accumulation. Utilizing an in-depth financial needs assessment and in partnership with Truist specialists in Banking, Strategic Credit, Risk Management, Investments and Trust & Estate Planning, he develops recommendations tailored to his clients’ needs, priorities and preferences.

Michael attended Campbell University where he earned a M.B.A. He currently maintains the Certified Trust Financial Advisor (CTFA) designation. After completing the trust certification at Campbell University, Michael spent several years assisting clients with special needs trust planning. He is a board member for the Estate Planning Council of North Georgia and a member of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council. He has been in banking for more than 27 years.

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So You Want to Sell the Family Business: Planning, Priorities, and Potential Pitfalls

July 29, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

So You Want to Sell the Family Business: Planning, Priorities, and Potential Pitfalls

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Chip Kelleher/Wilmington Trust

Chip Kelleher leads a team at Wilmington Trust responsible for providing comprehensive investment management, wealth planning, private banking and family office services to high-net-worth individuals, families and single-family offices throughout the Southeast. He works closely with his clients and their trusted advisors to protect, grow and transfer their wealth for generations.

Chip joins Wilmington Trust with deep industry experience working with business owners and sophisticated multigenerational families. Most recently, as a wealth advisor for Bessemer Trust, he employed the resources of the firm to help multi-generational clients achieve their objectives. Chip initially joined Bessemer’s Boston office where he worked with clients throughout the Northeast before moving to their Atlanta office and assuming greater responsibilities throughout the Southeast. Prior to
joining Bessemer, Chip began his career in wealth management as a financial advisor at UBS in Boston. Before entering financial services, Chip was the fourth generation of management in his family’s construction management company.

Garrett Alton/Wilmington Trust

Garrett Alton is responsible for managing Wilmington Trust’s Atlanta, GA and Southeast region, including all administrative and business development functions for personal trust, investment management, and private banking. In this role, he oversees the development and coordination of Wealth Management services for prominent individuals, families, and middle market institutional investment accounts. Garrett and his team work closely with clients and their advisors to develop financial strategies that help clients meet their current needs and plan for their long-term objectives.

Garrett has 28 years of experience in the wealth management industry, working with ultra high-net-worth individuals and families, endowments, foundations and family offices. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust in 2020, Garrett was managing director and regional head of client strategy for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, serving as their regional business development leader for the Central region.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

Remember to tune in HERE on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM to listen live to their show!

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It’s Complicated: Estate Planning for Blended Families

February 24, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

It's Complicated: Estate Planning for Blended Families

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Brooke French/Kessler & Solomiany LLC

Brooke French, Partner with Kessler & Solomiany LLC, represents clients in all aspects of domestic relations litigation, including divorce, separate maintenance, child custody and support modifications, contempt, post-divorce modification and enforcement, family violence, paternity, legitimation, and prenuptial agreements. Brooke understands the stress that couples encounter in divorce and she navigates her clients through this process as efficiently as possible.

She takes a special interest in protecting children and maintaining stability in their lives as the family structure changes. Children’s needs are sometimes inadvertently overshadowed when parents are struggling, and Brooke makes a special effort to educate her clients about the impact their decisions will have on children. The mother of two young children, she has focused on the needs of children in divorce throughout her career. She is trained as a guardian ad litem and is on the list of preferred attorneys for these matters in Fulton and Cobb counties. She writes frequently about custody issues and other family law developments.

Brooke strongly believes mediation is the best option for resolution in the majority of family law cases – particularly those in which children of any age are involved. She completed 100 hours of Civil Mediation and Divorce and Family Mediation training, and is a registered neutral with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.

Henry Bowden, Jr./The Bowden Law Firm, LLC

Henry Bowden, Partner with The Bowden Law Firm LLC, is a native of Atlanta, GA and received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Virginia in 1971 and his J.D. with Distinction from Emory University Law School in 1974. Mr. Bowden earned memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa and the Order of the Coif during his college and law school careers; he was also elected Articles Editor of the Emory Law Journal. After law school, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, for the Honorable Griffin B. Bell.

Mr.Bowden joined King & Spalding in 1975, making partner there in 1982. His areas of concentration have included estate planning and administration, charitable gift planning, and the representation of tax-exempt organizations. In June of 1995, Mr. Bowden founded The Bowden Law Firm.

Mr. Bowden was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel in 1986, and served as State Chair of the College in Georgia for five years. He served as chair of the Fiduciary Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia in 1990-91, and as President of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council in 1995-96. From 1982-87, he was an adjunct professor at Emory Law School, teaching estate and gift taxation in the Masters in Taxation program there.

Mr. Bowden has served as President of the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers, as Chairman of the Board of the Atlanta Ballet, Inc., as Chairman of the Board of Historic Oakland Foundation, Inc., as a Trustee of the Westminster Schools, and as a member of the Board of Managers of the University of Virginia Alumni Association. He is currently an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of Emory University, and an active trustee of Wesley Woods Senior Living, Inc. On January 1, 2016, Mr. Bowden was appointed by the Supreme Court of Georgia to serve a six-year term on the State Board of Bar
Examiners, and now chairs that Board. He is a lifelong member of Northside United Methodist Church, where he teaches Sunday school.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

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Personal Property and Estates: Planning, Appraising and Auctioning

October 28, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Personal Property and Estates: Planning, Appraising and Auctioning

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Allen Venet/SunTrust Bank (now Truist)

Allen Venet is a Senior Vice President at SunTrust Bank (now Truist) and relies on more than 35 years of experience when working with clients. He has handled estates and trusts valued from less than $1 million to more than $200 million – with each including unique personal property. A graduate of Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois College of Law, he practiced estate planning law and then served as an advisor at the leading trust department in his native Chicago before joining SunTrust, Atlanta in 1995. He is a regular speaker at legal and trust continuing education programs in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and other states. He and his wife live in DeKalb County where they raised their two sons.

Alyssa Quinlan/Hindman Auctions

Alyssa Quinlan is the Chief Business Development Officer at Hindman Auctions, based in their Chicago headquarters. Hindman is recognized internationally as a leading fine art auction house with 12 offices across the country. With an unyielding focus on client service, Hindman operates more salesrooms in the United States than any other firm and conducts over 100 auctions annually in categories such as fine art, modern design, jewelry and timepieces, fine books and manuscripts, couture and luxury accessories, fine furniture, decorative arts and more. Hindman is home to a team of over 150 experienced professionals and specialists dedicated to providing comprehensive auction services.

Quinlan returned to Hindman following nearly two decades of experience in wealth management, and the art and auction industry with nationally renowned firms including JP Morgan’s Private Bank and Citi Smith Barney Asset Management, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Gurr Johns. She oversees business development efforts nationally, in tandem with the firm’s ongoing expansion in locations, services and expertise.

Alyssa enjoys staying involved with local and national organizations where she has served as a charity auctioneer for charitable organizations including Special Olympics, University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation, Misericordia, and Children’s Home & Aid to name a few. She has been a member of the Ravinia Associates board since 2008 and a member of the Ravinia Woman’s Board since 2017. She was named one of Michigan Avenue Magazine’s “Women of Influence” and was featured in the “Phenomenal Women Project” benefitting Dress for Success. Alyssa received her BA from DePauw University where she studied English Literature and Economics.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

Remember to tune in HERE on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM to listen live to their show!

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Preparing Women for Prosperity

September 25, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Preparing Women for Prosperity

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Stacy Hanley/Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes, McSwain, Hass & Hanley P.C

Stacy Hanley practices primarily in the areas of tax and estate planning, probate, estate administration, real estate and closely held business matters with Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes, McSwain, Hass & Hanley P.C. She was admitted to practice in Georgia in 1999.

Stacy began her legal career at Long, Aldridge & Norman, LLP in the commercial real estate group. She then went on to become General Counsel for Homes by Williamscraft, Inc., the homebuilding company started by her father, Wilmont Williams. When Stacy’s father unexpectedly died in 2015, Stacy experienced firsthand the complexities of the estate administration process for family businesses. Stacy then decided to join Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes McSwain and Hass, P.C. so that she could utilize her practical and legal experience to help individuals and families navigate the estate planning and estate administration process.

She is passionate about educating and empowering women to take the driver’s seat in planning for their futures.

Tiffany Kent/Wealth Engagement LLC

Tiffany Kent is a Certified Financial Planner and founder of Wealth Engagement LLC, a registered investment advisor firm. After 20 years of working as a portfolio manager and financial advisor on Wall Street, she started Wealth Engagement to provide clear, conflict-free, and personalized financial/investment advice at a low cost. Kent is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Harvard Business School.

Tiffany lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and three kids. When she is not investing and advising clients, Tiffany can usually be found running on West Paces Ferry Road.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

Remember to tune in HERE on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM to listen live to their show!

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Money Messages: Unpacking Our Emotional Relationship with Money

July 22, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Money Messages: Unpacking Our Emotional Relationship with Money

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David Geller/Wealth Enhancement Group

David Geller joined Wealth Enhancement Group through the partnership with JOYN Advisors, where he acted as CEO and Co-Founder. He is the creator of the Behavioral Wealth Management™ model – a model that focuses on aligning wealth management with the integration of human emotions while also considering an individual’s talents, wisdom, network, and relationships. David has been featured in a number of prominent outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post. He enjoys sharing his wealth management philosophy through professional engagements and workshops.

David Bokman/Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management‘s Family Office Resources provides ultra high net worth clients a virtual family office experience with world-class, comprehensive services including family governance and wealth education, philanthropy, estate planning, customized asset allocation and portfolio construction, and lifestyle advisory. David Bokman’s diverse background has convinced him that ultra high net worth families benefit by approaching their wealth management needs from the broadest possible perspective. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he spent 13 years at GenSpring Family Offices, where he served as president of the Atlanta office, head of the Wealth Advisory Center and, most recently, chief advisory officer responsible for the overall delivery of the firm’s family office services. David also has previous experience with ultra high net worth clients as a vice president with Goldman Sachs’ Private Client Group; as a partner with King & Spalding focused on trusts and estates law; and as a senior tax manager with Arthur Andersen. David graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1984 and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1988.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

Remember to tune in HERE on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM to listen live to their show!

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Probate

March 25, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Everything You Wanted to Know about Probate

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Tim Curtin/Curtin Law Firm, P.C.

Tim Curtin is the founding partner of Curtin Law Firm, P.C., a boutique estate planning and probate administration law firm in Atlanta, GA.

Tim currently serves as Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Estate Planning and Probate Section. He is a graduate of The Wake Forest University School of Law and had practiced law in Atlanta for over 25 years. Tim is a frequent lecturer on estate planning and probate topics in the community and has presented to other members of the Bar at continuing legal education seminars.

In addition to his private law practice, Tim serves as a court appointed attorney and guardian ad litem in the Fulton and DeKalb County Probate Courts, where he assists those who are unable to advocate for themselves.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

If you would like to watch past episodes of “Wealth Matters”, please visit their You Tube Channel.

Remember to tune in HERE on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM to listen live to their show!

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