Kyle G. Durante

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.