There are a variety of legitimate estate planning tools and techniques available to help you reduce or avoid estate taxes. These techniques include strategies that utilize irrevocable trusts, charitable trusts, life insurance trusts, family partnerships, LLCs, and other legitimate legal transactions. These strategies may seem complicated, but with proper counseling and analysis, we may be able to find perfect solutions for each individual estate tax situation. Estate tax planning is just one of several issues that need to be addressed as part of a comprehensive estate plan.