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Michael P. Vito
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Roseland
Tel: 973.597.2544 | Fax: 973.597.2545


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Michael P. Vito practices in the areas of tax, estate planning and estate administration and is a member of the firm's Trusts & Estates Practice Group. He is routinely involved in tax analysis regarding complex issues in federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax and income tax planning for trusts and estates. Mr. Vito is experienced in preparing various estate planning instruments, including wills, insurance trusts, "living" trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, durable powers of attorney and advance directives for health care. Mr. Vito's planning practice also encompasses asset planning involving family limited partnerships and tax-exempt organizations such as family foundations.

In addition, Mr. Vito counsels executors and trustees in fulfilling their fiduciary duties in administering decedents' estates and trusts. His estate administration practice includes probate proceedings, preparing estate and inheritance tax returns, handling estate and inheritance tax audits and preparing documents necessary to effect interim and final distributions from an estate or trust, be it via a formal court accounting action or by informal settlement agreement and release.

In 2006 and 2007, Mr. Vito was recognized as a Rising Star in New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine.




  • Design Your Trust To Deter Disputes
    New Jersey Law Journal, December 10, 2007
    Michael Vito

  • Avoiding Detrimental Designations
    New Jersey Law Journal, July 2, 2007
    Michael Vito

  • New Tax Act Affects Estate and Retirement Planning
    CLOSELYheld, August 2001
    Michael Gooen, Andrew Graw, Michael Vito

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  • Michael P. Vito comments on estate tax valuation issues in an article about estate planning during times of economic, legislative and demographic change., NJ Business Magazine, February 2008




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    Business Tax Counseling & Structuring
    Corporate
    Fiduciary Counseling & Litigation
    Trusts & Estates


    Education

    Tulane University Law School (J.D., 1998), magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Notes & Comments Editor, Tulane Law Review
    Tulane University (B.A., 1996), Paul Tulane College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa




    New Jersey
    District of Columbia
    New York




    1998, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
    2002, U.S. Tax Court




    • New Jersey State Bar Association:  Member, Board of Consultors, Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section
    • National Italian American Bar Association



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