Click here to listen to an ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk Podcast, in which our own ACTEC Fellow Richard Franklin discusses three ways that well-being science could help in estate planning and he particularly focuses on why citing the well-being research in trust instruments would be transformative.

Franklin Karibjanian & Law PLLC specializes in estate planning, charitable gift planning, and estate administration and in related areas of federal and state tax law including estate and gift tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, and fiduciary income tax.

In 2024, a person can give lifetime or transfer upon death a combined $13.61 million with no federal gift or estate tax. We offer creative and innovative strategies to maximize the available benefits of using this exclusion.

The Washington, D.C. office is the firm’s primary office, and is located in downtown Washington at the corner of 17th and L Streets, one block from the Farragut North Metro Station. Richard Franklin and Nikki DePersis are the resident partners in the Washington office. The office serves as the central hub for all firm activities and all of our attorneys and staff work from this office either full-time or part-time.