Henry M. Grix
Member
hgrix(at)dickinsonwright.com
Phone: 248.433.7548
Fax: 248.433.7274
Areas of Practice Emphasis
- Estate Planning & Administration
- Estate & Gift Taxation
- Taxation
- Nonprofit Organizations
Representative Clients
- Individuals, couples, and families seeking to optimize their tax and personal planning
- Owners & managers of family businesses
- Executives of publicly-traded companies
- Unmarried couples
- Private & Public Charities
- Corporate, professional and individual fiduciaries
Prominent Assignments
- Advising individuals and families about inter-generational wealth transfers including transfers of business interests, securities, real estate, and art
- Advising individuals and families about tax-saving strategies, including family limited partnerships, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and sales involving grantor trusts
- Advising individuals and professional fiduciaries in connection with tax matters and probate and trust administration
- Advising donors about charitable giving strategies, including creating and operating public and private foundations, supporting organizations, and charitable trusts
- Advising nonprofit and charitable organizations about tax and regulatory compliance and effective operation
Education
- J.D., University of Michigan, 1977
- B.A. (with honors), University of Michigan, 1970
Admitted to Practice
- Michigan, 1978
Professional and Community Involvement
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- Former Chair, Probate and Estate Planning Council, Probate and Estate Planning Section, State Bar of Michigan, 2003-2004
- Member, State Bar of Michigan, Sections of Taxation and Probate and Estate Planning
- Member, American Bar Association, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law
- Member, Probate and Estate Planning Advisory Board, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Member, Legal & Financial Network, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
- Secretary-Treasurer, Detroit Club Preservation Foundation
- Education Chair, Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts
- Development and Grants Committees, The Hope Fund, a component fund of The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
- Financial & Estate Planning Council of Metropolitan Detroit
Publications and Presentations
- Lexis Publishing, Michigan Estate Planning, Will Drafting and Estate Administration Forms and Practice (2-volume treatise), 1992
Events and Seminars
Acknowledgments
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2007
- Top 100 Michigan Super Lawyers 2007
