Closely Held Businesses: A Guide from Eckhardt's Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners

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Published by: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
ISBN: 978-1-57862-774-5 198+ pp.; 1st ed. 2026-27
Closely Held Businesses: A Guide from Eckhardt's Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners

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When a client owns a business, one question shapes the entire estate plan: what happens if they die, retire, become disabled, or want to transfer ownership? Closely Held Businesses: A Guide from Eckhardt's Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners helps you answer it. The book draws from Eckhardt's Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners, the estate-planning classic Wisconsin attorneys have relied on for decades. It organizes the planning around the moving parts of business ownership: entity form, transfer to the next generation, buy-sell agreements, transfer restrictions, and postmortem tax planning.

  1. Scope of Chapter
  2. Selecting Form of Closely Held Business
  3. Transferring Family Business to Next Generation
  4. Designing Buy-Sell Agreements
  5. Restricting Transfers of Interests in CLosely Held Businesses
  6. Postmortem Tax Planning

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