Tax

Hilton S. Bell and Sheila Moragas provide legal guidance in the Tax, Trusts, and Estates practice area of LaFleur & Laborde.  The Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization has certified Bell and Toups as a specialist in tax and certified Moragas in estate planning and administration. Moragas has also earned membership in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Our Tax, Trusts, and Estates practice encompasses all areas of estate planning. Our lawyers assist individuals and their businesses in properly planning for each client's situation. The Tax Trusts and Estates group provides tax and estate planning services for individuals, including wills, successions, charitable trusts, gifting, federal estate tax planning, and transactional planning. Our attorneys regularly create special needs trusts for families to address these complex personal and legal matters. Further, we assist with succession planning for family businesses, pre-and post-marital agreements, and charitable giving.

We handle interdictions and tutorships and represent the fiduciaries appointed in these cases. Our attorneys also represent parties in contested successions and trust administration disputes. We advise corporate and individual trustees administering special needs trusts.

We administer Louisiana successions and ancillary estates that own Louisiana properties. We have represented our clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the Louisiana Department of Revenue, and the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals in all tax disputes. We also represent nonprofit organizations in connection with compliance and planning issues.