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Elizabeth Larrauri Chamulak

Senior Counsel

Overview

Overview

Senior advisor concentrating on estate planning and administration of trusts and estates.

Liz Chamulak is Senior Counsel at Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner LLP and has focused her practice on Wills, Trusts, and Estates for more than three decades. She is the Chair of the Firm’s Trusts and Estates Department.

Liz counsels individuals and families with estate planning directed at long term family goals. She aims to educate and guide clients on how assets are structured, transferred, and preserved across generations.

Liz works closely with clients to shape estate plans that respond to changing family circumstances, new tax considerations, and evolving legal requirements. She prepares and administers estate planning documents and advises clients on estate, gift, and income tax issues, including matters involving federal and state tax authorities. Her approach emphasizes foresight, continuity, and stewardship. With Liz’s help, clients have thoughtful arrangements in place that will endure and adapt as intended.

In addition to advising clients on estate planning, Liz’s work is also heavily concentrated in trust and estate administration involving real estate, securities, family businesses, and personal property. She regularly represents individuals and corporate fiduciaries in probate and accounting proceedings and has extensive experience before the Surrogate’s Courts of New York and New Jersey. She is closely familiar with the procedural and practical details that shape how estates are administered and how plans hold up over time.

Recognizing that discussing estate planning is not an easy topic for most, Liz’s goal in her practice is to assist clients with approachability, expertise and consideration.

Education

  • B.S., St. Francis College, Presidential Scholar
  • J.D., Pace University School of Law

Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Experience

Focus Areas

  • Estate planning and wealth transfer
  • Probate proceedings and estate administration
  • Trust administration and accounting proceedings
  • Estate and gift tax planning and compliance
  • Estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns preparation
  • Domestic and international trusts and estates
  • Preparation of pre- and post-marital agreements

Representative Matters

  • Advised individuals and families on multi-generational estate planning involving real estate, securities, family businesses, and personal property.
  • Represented individuals and corporate fiduciaries in probate and accounting proceedings before Surrogate’s Courts throughout New York and New Jersey.
  • Prepared and administered complex estate planning instruments, including revocable and irrevocable trusts, charitable trusts, and supplemental needs trusts.
  • Represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities in estate, gift, and income tax matters.
  • Prepared pre and post marital agreements, including review of assets and family trusts for the purposes of generational asset protection under such agreements
  • Advised on trust and estate issues arising in real estate and corporate transactions and worked with charitable organizations and foundations.

Honors & Awards

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