Lauren Taylor
Lauren focuses her practice on complex estate planning, trust and estate administration, and related corporate and real estate matters. Lauren represents high-net-worth individuals, personal representatives, trustees, closely-held businesses, charitable organizations, executives, and entrepreneurs.
Lauren’s practice includes complex domestic and international estate planning, wealth preservation and business succession planning, trust, estate, and probate administration, federal income, estate, and gift taxation, modification and termination of irrevocable trusts, and premarital and postmarital agreements.
Lauren assists with establishing private foundations, public charities, and other tax-exempt organizations, applying for tax exemption with the IRS, and ongoing operational and tax advice. Lauren also represents personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries in complex and contested trust and estate administration and litigation, will and trust contests, and estate tax controversy matters.
Lauren has experience with family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), life insurance trusts (ILITs), grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs), sales to grantor trusts, multi-generation dynasty trusts, trusts for minors, homestead issues, post-mortem estate planning, and federal estate, gift, and fiduciary income tax returns.
Lauren was previously a partner of an Am Law 200 law firm where she represented sophisticated high profile and high-net-worth clients. Lauren is a frequent author of articles on trusts and estates issues and has been cited in the Trust & Estates Florida Bar treatises, Practice Under the Florida Probate Code, and Litigation Under the Florida Probate Code. She is also a graduate of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC) Florida Fellows Institute.
Before private practice, Lauren began her legal career with a federal clerkship with the Honorable Elizabeth A. Jenkins in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Lauren earned her finance and law degrees from the University of Florida, where she served as a member of Florida Blue Key and an editor of the Florida Law Review.
Lauren serves on the Board of After-School All-Stars, which partners with schools to provide free after-school and summer programs for underserved children in Tampa Bay.
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Lauren Taylor
Lauren’s practice includes:
- complex domestic and international estate planning
- wealth preservation and business succession planning
- trust, estate, and probate administration
- federal income, estate, and gift taxation
- modification and termination of irrevocable trusts
- private foundations, public charities, and other tax-exempt organizations
- prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
Practice Areas
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Trusts and Estates
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Tax Law
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Private Client Service
Education
- University of Florida, Levin College of Law, J.D., cum laude
- Florida Law Review
- Book Awards: Income Tax of Estates and Trusts; Legal Drafting
- Florida Blue Key
- University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, B.S.B.A., Finance
- Warrington Finance Scholar
Admissions
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The Florida Bar
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U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
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U.S. Tax Court
Distinctions
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Estate Planning & Probate, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Best Lawyers in America®, Trusts & Estates, 2023
- Best Lawyers in America®, Trusts & Estates – Litigation, 2023
- American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), Florida Fellows Institute, Class V Graduate, 2021-2022
Professional Associations
- The Florida Bar
- Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section
- Tax Section
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Co-Chair, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, 2022-Present
- Tampa Connection, Class of 2017
- Alumni Committee
- Board Member, After-School All-Stars Tampa Bay, 2017-present
- Chair, Professional Development Committee
- Corporate Challenge Committee
- Volunteer, Bay Area Legal Services, 2016-present
- Volunteer, Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Wills for Heroes, December 2015-present
Publications & Presentations
- The SECURE Act 2.0: Provisions to Consider, Hillsborough County Bar Association Lawyer Magazine, May-June 2023
- Inheritance Issues, Wealth Transfer Taxes, and Spousal Rights in Blended Families, Hillsborough County Bar Association Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section, Moderator, January 18, 2023
- Women & Wealth, U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management’s Special Event Luncheon, Panelist, June 22, 2022
- Applying for FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance, Business and Legal Insights, October 7, 2021
- Written Disclosure Requirements for Attorney Fees in Trust and Estate Administrations, Business and Legal Insights, May 10, 2021
- Can an Heir Agree to Release All Rights to an Ancestor’s Estate?, Hillsborough County Bar Association Lawyer Magazine, March – April 2019
- Florida’s New Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, Hillsborough County Bar Association Lawyer Magazine, January-February 2017
- Determining Reasonable Trustee Compensation, Hillsborough County Bar Association Lawyer Magazine, May-June 2016
- Treading on Sacred Ground: Denying the Appointment of a Testator’s Nominated Personal Representative, 63 Fla. L. Rev. 1041 (2011)