Profile
Madeline J. Rivlin focuses her practice on estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, including will and trust drafting, wealth transfer tax and associated income tax planning, and implementing various estate planning strategies.
Concentrations
- Intentionally defective grantor trusts
- Family partnerships
- Irrevocable life insurance trusts
- Qualified personal residence trusts
- Grantor-retained annuity trusts
- Perpetual trusts
- Marital trusts
- Charitable remainder trusts
- Charitable lead trusts
Capabilities
Experience
- Adjunct Professor, Estate Planning and Federal Estate and Gift Tax, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, 2000-Present
- Consultant, Cloudlaw, PCB, 2013-2018
- Associate, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, 1985-2002
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Trusts and Estates, 2024-2025
Credentials
Education
- M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 2018
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J.D., magna cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 1982
- Member, Boston University Law Review
- B.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979
Clerkships
- Hon. Edward F. Hennessy, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1982-1983
Admissions
- New York