Henry M. Grix

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Bloomfield Hills Office

hgrix(at)dickinsonwright.com

Phone: 248.433.7548

Fax: 248.433.7274

Areas of Practice Emphasis

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