Cynthia T. Fenninger

Location:
Charlotte, NC
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704-556-9601
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Cynthia T. Fenninger
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Cyndy Fenninger is a partner at Orsbon & Fenninger, LLP. She is a member of the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law sections of the American Bar Association and the Taxation section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is a North Carolina State Bar certified specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law.
Ms. Fenninger has extensive experience in a broad range of federal and state income, estate, and gift tax issues. She regularly advises and represents clients in the following areas:
- Implementing sophisticated estate planning techniques to minimize the impact of estate inheritance, and income taxes on a decedent's estate, including charitable trusts, grantor retained trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and other tax-savings devices;
- Creating living trusts to enable management and conservation of assets, enhance tax savings and avoid probate;
- Establishing and implementing irrevocable life insurance trusts;
- Handling estate administration matters with an emphasis on valuation issues;
- Preparing of state and federal gift and estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns;
- Advising fiduciaries concerning their powers and duties;
- Coordinating retirement plan benefits in the estate planning setting; and
- Gift planning to facilitate the transfer of assets during life at minimal gift tax cost and planning and carrying out a variety of tax-free reorganizations involving family.
Areas of Practice
- Estate Planning
- Estate Administration
- Tax Law
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 1993
Education
- University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- J.D. - 1993
- Honors: With Honors, Order of the Coif
- University of North Carolina
- B.A. - 1989
- Honors: with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa