Biography
Kyle G. Durante concentrates his practice on providing sophisticated counsel to domestic and international high-net-worth individuals and families in trust and estate matters to create tax-efficient wealth transfer strategies through estate, tax, business succession, and asset protection planning.
Kyle has notable experience counseling clients on exemption capture planning, drafting estate planning documents, assisting with the preparation of gift tax, estate tax, and fiduciary income tax returns, assisting individuals with the establishment and maintenance of tax-exempt organizations, foundations, and trusts, as well as conducting extensive research on income, estate, generation-skipping transfer, and capital gains taxation.
Kyle also has noteworthy experience counseling clients on both inbound and outbound cross border estate planning matters, including matters related to foreign trusts and the associated U.S. tax consequences, the domestication of foreign trusts, pre-immigration and expatriation planning, and compliance and reporting obligations for individuals with overseas interests in foreign accounts, corporations and trusts.
Kyle is also experienced at managing contested and uncontested estate and trust administration matters within the court systems, including probate, administration, accounting, and miscellaneous proceedings. He regularly represents clients in matters before the New York Surrogate’s Court, including fiduciary succession applications, trust termination proceedings, will contests, construction proceedings, accountings, declaration of death proceedings, and other fiduciary-based litigation.
During law school, Kyle served as the managing editor of the Touro Law Review.
News & Views
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Event
Blank Rome Tax Update 2024
Craig B. Fields, Cory G. Jacobs, Sean R. Weissbart, Lawrence S. Chane, Andrew J. Haas, Eugene J. Gibilaro
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Speaking Engagement
Rowley Society Reception
Marymount Manhattan College -
Speaking Engagement
Irrevocable Trusts: Who is the Taxpayer?
Lawline CLE -
Alert
Business Entities Formed for Estate Planning Purposes Have FinCEN Filing Deadline of January 1, 2025
Trusts & EstatesSean R. Weissbart, Lawrence S. Chane, Andrew J. Haas, James R. O'Neill, Michael I. Sanders, Peter C. Valente
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Alert
Supreme Court Issues Ruling Affecting Valuation of Closely Held Corporations Employing Life-Insurance-Funded Redemption-Type Buy-Sell Agreements
Trusts & EstatesSean R. Weissbart, Lawrence S. Chane, Andrew J. Haas, James R. O'Neill, Michael I. Sanders, Peter C. Valente
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Blog Post
New York Compulsory Accounting Proceedings—A Valuable Tool to Provide Transparency or a Means to Extort a Settlement
Future Wealth Navigator -
Speaking Engagement
Digital Assets
NYU School of Professional Studies Tax Conferences in July: Introduction to Trusts and Estates Conference -
Article
U.S. Appeals Court: Today’s Loans May Be Tomorrow’s Gifts
WealthManagement.com -
Blog Post
Is CCA 202352018 the Death of Irrevocable Trust Decantings?
Future Wealth Navigator -
Event
Blank Rome Tax Update 2023
Joseph T. Gulant, Andrew J. Haas, Cory G. Jacobs, Michael A. Kadlec, David J. Moise, Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld
Credentials
Admissions
- Connecticut
- New York
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York
Education
- University of Buffalo, State University of New York, BA
- Erie Community College, AS
- Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, JD, summa cum laude