Anna K. Gibson

Anna Gibson is a former Trusts and Estates Practice Group leader in the firm's Lansing office. Her practice focuses on helping families achieve their unique estate planning goals and making the process of incapacity or death easier for their loved ones. This could include use of a will, trust, joint ownership, beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, patient advocates, funeral representatives or other documents.

Anna excels in counseling on both simple and complex situations. These include planning for families with young children, planning techniques for retirement benefits and life insurance, trusts, international estate planning, federal estate and gift tax planning, charitable planned giving, probate and trust administration, asset protection, planning for blended families, as well as succession planning or family businesses.

After graduating first in her class at Ave Maria Law School, Anna went on to earn her ICLE Probate and Estate Planning Certificate as well as her Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP) Certificate in Foundations.

Best Lawyers® in America- Trusts and Estates, 2013-2025

Michigan Lawyers Weekly 'Women in the Law' Class of 2021

Tax Student Achievement Award, State Bar of Michigan 2008

Ave Maria Law Review

- Associate Editor, 2006-2007

- Executive Articles Editor, 2007-2008

• Performed complex tax analysis, including retirement benefit minimum required distribution and split dollar insurance plans, to generate substantial estate, gift, and income tax savings for clients.
• Created complex trusts to generate income and estate tax savings, including Grantor Returned Annuity Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance trusts, Retirement Benefit Trusts, and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Trusts.
• Helped young families plan for the care and custody of minors if something were to happen to both parents.
• Established guardianship for care of a minor and incapacitated individuals when no or incomplete estate planning had been done.

Legal Affiliations:

• American Bar Association
  • Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
• Society of Trust and Estate Planning Professionals Student Membership
• State Bar of Michigan

Industry & Professional Associations:

• Elder Law of Michigan, Board of Directors
• Greater Lansing Estate Planning Council (GLEPC)