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Ms. Detzel is chair of the firm's Estate and Succession Planning Department and specializes in techniques to reduce or avoid paying estate tax such as family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), sales to intentionally defective trusts, charitable trusts, lifetime gifts and generation skipping trusts. Particular emphasis includes planning for the succession of closely held or family business. She also handles many contested tax matters in the transfer tax area, ranging from audits of returns and administrative appeals within the IRS to Tax Court and Federal District Court litigation. Ms. Detzel handles the entire gamut of administration of estates and trusts, including contested matters of will and trust interpretation and reformation. Areas of Practice: Wealth Preservation and Estate Planning Trust and Estate Administration Transfer Tax Controversies Business Succession Planning Certification/Specialties: Board Certified in Wills, Trusts, and Estates, The Florida Bar Bar Admissions: Florida, 1978 U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1978 U.S. Tax Court Education: University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, 1977 J.D. Honors: Magna Cum Laude Honors: Order of the Coif Law Review: University of Florida Law Review, Executive Editor, 1977 University of Louisville, 1973 B.A. Honors: Magna Cum Laude Published Works: Carryover Basis a Discredited' Concept in Estate Planning, Estate Planning Journal, April 2010 Roth IRA Conversions: Benefits And Planning Opportunities, Florida Bar Journal, June 2009 Florida Bar Journal SunTrust Will and Trust Manual Estate Planning Changes in the 2001 Act - More Than You Can Count, 95 Journal of Taxation 74, August, 2001 Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways & Means, Hearing on President's Tax Relief Proposals That Affect Individuals, March 21, 2001 Classes/Seminars Taught: Ethics in the Practice of Tax Law Seminar, University of Florida Graduate Tax Program, 1992 - 2010 Graduate Tax Program, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Florida College of Law, 1989-2000, 2006-2010 Southern Federal Tax Institute University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ALI-ABA The Florida Bar Practicing Law Institute Honors and Awards: Honored as 2011 Orlando's Best Lawyers - Tax Lawyer of the Year Awarded Special Merit Award by The Florida Bar Tax Section, 2009 Named an Outstanding Trusts and Estates Attorney in The Best Lawyers in America, 1992 - 2011 Named one of Orlando's Best Trusts and Estates Attorneys by Orlando Magazine, 2001 - 2011 Named an Outstanding Tax and Wealth Management Attorney in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003 - 2010 Named an Outstanding Wills, Trusts and Estates Attorney in Florida Trend Magazine's Legal Elite, 2004 - 2010 Named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Florida by Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2010 Named one of Florida's Top 50 Female Attorneys, North Florida's Top 25 Female Attorneys, and Outstanding Estate Planning & Probate and Tax Attorneys in Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2006 - 2010 Martindale-Hubbell: AV Rating Professional Associations and Memberships: The Florida Bar - Tax Section, 1980 - Present Member, Executive Council The Florida Bar - Tax Section, 1997 - 1998 Chair The Florida Bar - Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section Member, Executive Council American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Fellow and Member of Estate and Gift Tax & Asset Protection Committees The Florida Bar - Certification Committee for Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 1994 - 1995 Chair The Florida Bar - Certification Committee for Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 1992 - 1995 Member Wealth Transfer Planning, National Will and Trust Document Assembly Program Editorial Board, Florida Author Central Florida Estate Planning Council, 2000 - 2001 President Orange County Bar Association Chair, Wills and Trusts Committee The Florida Bar Foundation, Inc. Fellow