Departments

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Scot W. Boulton

Senior Partner
Scot Boulton provides meaningful guidance to clients on simple and complex legal issues when they undertake their estate planning or are faced with the administration of an estate or trust. This guidance includes navigating the complex and often confusing provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that govern estate and gift taxation, generation-skipping transfer taxation, and income taxation of trusts and estates.  Mr. Boulton also assists in establishing and administering tax-exempt family foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Missouri Bar Association
    • Chair, Sub-Committee on Trust Law Revision, Probate & Trust Committee 1995-2010
    • Chair, Probate & Trust Committee 2004-2007
    • Probate & Trust Legislative Review Committee 1992-present
  • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
    • Chair, Probate and Trust Section Steering Committee 1997-2001
  • Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
    • State Laws Committee 2001-present
    • Chair, State Laws Committee, 2010-present
    • Chair, Subcommittee on Uniform Laws of the State Laws Committee 2007-2010
    • Charitable Planning Committee 2004-present
  • Clayton Century Foundation
    • Secretary, Board of Directors, Chair of Clayton Century Foundation History
  • Alzheimer’s Association of St. Louis
    • Chair, Planned Giving Committee
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, Endowment Council
  • Saint Louis University Bequest and Gift Council, 2010-present
  • American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter
    • Planned Giving Committee

Distinctions

  • AV Rated Martindale Hubbell
  • President's Award, Missouri Bar Foundation, 2009
  • Selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2006-2011
  • Five Star Wealth Manager 2010, 2011, 2012 (St. Louis Magazine)
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2011-2012 Trusts and Estates

Publications & Presentations

Currently
Mr. Boulton has lectured extensively on many topics, including estate planning, estate, gift, and generation skipping taxation, trust and estate administration, and the creation and administration of exempt entities for many organizations, including the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the Missouri Bar, the Minnesota Bar, the Nebraska Bar and ALI-ABA.
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