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 Gerald L. Thoreen
Email: gthoreen@quinlivan.com
Direct: (320) 258-7865
 Mr. Thoreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1933. He became a shareholder in the firm in 1970. Jerry's practice is concentrated in estate and trust planning, administration and litigation. His experience covers a wide range of matters, including estate settlement- estate tax planning, valuation of closely-held businesses, planning for the payment of death costs, financially distressed estates and estate assets, environmental liability, and income tax planning; estate planning- use of trusts to shelter assets from claims and taxation, use of life insurance (irrevocable trusts, split dollar agreements, and taxation), incapacity (powers of attorney, trusts, protective orders and conservatorships), succession of ownership and control of family businesses (lifetime gifts, entity selection, transfer restriction, buyout and control agreements); charitable gifts and nonprofit corporations (governance, investment management, liability and indemnification of officers and directors); qualified plans and IRAs (plan design for estate building and distribution choices, distribution planning); estate tax reduction planning (annual exclusion gifts, gifts which leverage tax savings on future value, valuation freezes and valuation discounts in corporations, LLCs and partnerships).
Education
University of Minnesota, (B.S.L., 1955)
University of Minnesota School of Law (L.L.B., 1957)
Bar Admissions
Minnesota, 1957
Concentration
Closely Held Corporations
Estate and Gift Tax
Estate & Tax Planning
Non Profit Organizations
Probate & Estate Administration
Trust & Estate Litigation
Trust Law
Member
American College of Trust and Estate Council (ACTEC)
Central Minnesota Estate Planning Council (1974 - 2000)
Minnesota State Bar Association
(Probate and Trust Law Section: Governing Council 1972-76 (Chair 1975-76);
Principles of Probate Practice Committee (Chair 1976-79);
Probate Court Rules Committee (Chair 1978-85);
Special Committee on UPC Article II (1992-94))
MN Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Probate Court Rules (1984-89)
President's Committee on the MN Probate Code (1974-75)
Stearns / Benton County Bar Association
Civic
Great River Regional Library(trustee 1969-71)
Sts. Peter, Paul and Michael School (trustee 1973-75)
Cathedral High School (director 1975-78)
Cathedral High School Education Foundation trustee (1978-82)
City of St. Cloud Downtown Council (director 1992-96)
CentraCare Health Foundation (director 1996-2003)
Central Minnesota Community Foundation (Investment Committee)
Jerry works with the following staff members
Donald F. Hathaway, Paralegal
Virginia M. Duel, Secretary
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