Professionals

Susan Link is Chair of Maslon's Estate Planning Group and practices in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration. She works with families to plan the disposition of their assets, both during lifetime and at death, and to accomplish the optimal estate and gift tax planning for the clients through wills, trusts and other instruments. Susan routinely drafts estate plans that include disclaimer planning and credit shelter plans, in addition to drafting and implementing charitable lead trusts, charitable remainder trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, irrevocable insurance trusts, minors' trusts, antenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements. She is regularly involved in the analysis and issues of lifetime gifting programs, estate tax planning and generation-skipping issues.

Susan also works with families after the death of a family member to ensure that the client's wishes are achieved and that the plan they created is carried out. If appropriate, Susan also advises estate and trust beneficiaries during administration in order to maximize their own planning options relative to their share of a decedent's estate through the use of disclaimers and powers of appointment.

Susan is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and has taught Wills, Estates & Trusts and Estate Planning as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.