Monika Jain focuses her practice on counseling high-net-worth individuals regarding their estate planning. She advises clients on income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax matters. She also prepares wills, trust agreements, including insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, qualified terminable interest property trusts, qualified domestic trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, credit shelter trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts and other planning-related documents. She also assists clients with accomplishing their charitable goals by creating tax-exempt organizations, including public charities, private foundations and private operating foundations, and also by negotiating and preparing gift agreements. In addition, Monika represents clients in marital planning, including the negotiation and preparation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
BAR ADMISSION:
2003, New York
EDUCATION:
New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Taxation, 2006)
Northwestern University (J.D., 2002)
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Colgate University (B.A., cum laude, 1996)
MEMBER:
American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Section)
New York State Bar Association (Trusts and Estates Law Section)
New York City Bar Association
PUBLICATIONS:
"Mitigating the Dangers of Capital Convictions Based on Eyewitness Testimony through Treason’s Two-Witness Rule," 91:3 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 761, 2001
