CINCINNATI ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

Clary Redd concentrates his practice in estate planning, estate and trust administration and estate and trust-related litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Clary was a partner with another large law firm where he served as Vice Chair of its Trusts & Estates Practice Group. He was previously employed as a trust administrator by First Wisconsin Trust Company (now U.S. Bank, N.A.) in Milwaukee and as an assistant counsel by Centerre Trust Company of St. Louis (now U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management).

 

Clary has extensive experience and expertise in: (a) the drafting of wills, trust instruments, durable powers of attorney, marital agreements and other estate planning documents; (b) pre- and post-death tax planning for individuals, trusts and estates; (c) preparation and filing of estate tax returns, gift tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns; (d) representation of individual and corporate fiduciaries; and (e) litigation in the Probate Division and other equity divisions of the Circuit Court. He has worked on estates and estate planning projects, some involving assets valued at over a billion dollars, and has successfully handled numerous estate tax matters, gift tax matters, generation-skipping transfer tax matters, will and trust construction cases, will contests, contests of trust instruments, breach of fiduciary duty cases and other types of cases involving estates and trusts.