Lawyer Overview

J. Stoddard Hayes, Jr., ("Tod") represents individuals with significant wealth in their estate planning and trust and estate administration matters. He concentrates in succession planning for businesses and farms and matters involving complex generation-skipping transfers. Tod lectures regularly to professional groups on tax and estate planning topics, including conservation easements, planning for family business owners, and the tax aspects of charitable giving techniques.

Tod is past Chairman of the American Bankers' Association Trust Division's Taxation Committee and, in that capacity, testified before the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Internal Revenue Service on various topics, including Estate Tax Reform, Repeal of the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Repeal of the Throwback Rules and Reform of the Taxation of Trusts and Estate, revision to regulations governing Private Foundations, and other matters.

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Business Succession Planning
• Trust and Estate Administration
• Personal and Fiduciary Income Taxation
• Equine Law
• Non-Profit Corporation Law

West Practice Categories

Estate Planning, Probate & Estate Administration

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1974
• Maryland, 2007

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Chester County Community Foundation, West Chester, PA, 2008 - Present (Board Member)
• MMI Preparatory School, Freeland, PA, 2000 - Present (Board Member)
• Sophia G. Coxe Charitable Trust Fund, Inc., Drifton, PA, 1985 - Present (Treasurer and Former President, Board Member)
• John Boyer Memorial Scholarship Trust, Philadelphia, PA, 1996 - Present (Treasurer, Trustee)
• Chester County Bar Association, West Chester, PA (Co-Chair Probate Section)
• Maryland, Pennsylvania and American Bar Asociations (Member)
• Estate Planning Counsel of Chester County (Member and Past President)
• Estate Planning Counsel of Delaware (Member and Past President)

Classes and Seminars

• Income Tax of Decedents' Estates and Trust, Widener University School of Law, 1988 - 1996
• Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Widener University School of Law, 1986 - 1987
• Estate Planning for the Family Business Owner (Course Planner), Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Fundamentals of Will Drafting, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Estate Administration, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Estate Planning with Conservation Easements, Pennsylvania Bar Institute

Past Employment Positions

• Duane Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA, Associate Attorney, 1974 - 1976
• Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, DE, Vice President and Senior Trust Counsel, 1976 - 1994
• Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing, West Chester, PA, Shareholder, 1994 - 2007
• Christiana Bank & Trust Company, Wilmington, DE, Director, 1996 - 2004
• The Haverford Trust Company, Radnor, PA, Director, 2006 - Present

Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  J.D., with High Honors
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  B.S. Economics
  Major: Corporate Finance

Address

17 East Gay Street
Suite 100
West Chester, PA 19381-0562

Phones

(484) 880-4353
(866) 615-5890

Faxes

(610) 696-7111

Emails

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Websites

http://www.gawthrop.com