Asher H. Miller is a Partner in our Wills, Trusts & Tax Planning/Probate & Estate Administration Practice Group. He has extensive experience in estate and trust planning and administration, business succession planning, estate planning for the elderly, tax planning, fiduciary accounting, will contests, and contested accountings.
His practice encompasses counseling individuals and families in the development and implementation of sophisticated estate plans tailored to their personal, financial, and family circumstances. His practice includes the preparation of simple and complex wills and a wide variety of trusts, including marital, credit shelter, insurance, grantor, generation-skipping, dynasty, QDOT, qualified personal residence, charitable, and supplemental needs trusts. He also advises clients regarding pre-marital and post-marital agreements, shareholders’ agreements, and other documents integral to comprehensive estate planning.
Representing individuals and families with moderate to substantial wealth, as well as major banks and trust companies serving the New York metropolitan area, Mr. Miller advises his clients on a broad range of estate and trust matters. His practice also includes the planning, creation, and administration of charitable entities, including private foundations.
In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Miller is the author of New York Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts Library: Forms and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing Co. and initially released in 2001. The publication is updated annually and serves as a resource for practitioners handling New York trusts and estates matters.
He is a member of the Trusts and Estates Sections of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, as well as the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
His legal education includes an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a B.A. from Columbia University, where he graduated Cum Laude.
Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 1986
Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1977
Columbia University, B.A, 1974
Bar Admission
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Tax Court
Bar Associations
American Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section
New York State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Section
Association of the bar of the City of New york
Recognition
AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell