Susan T Bart

Practice Areas

Susan helps clients transfer their wealth in meaningful, tax-efficient ways. Her practice focuses on estate and gift tax planning, trust and estate administration, charitable planning, and fiduciary counsel., and her clients include wealthy individuals and families, family business owners, corporate executives, banks and trust companies, trustees and executors, and private foundations. Susan is a fellow, former regent, and former Illinois state chair of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC), the leading national association for trust and estate lawyers. She was the Reporter of the Uniform Trust Decanting Act, which has been enacted in many states. She has also been active in Illinois trust law legislation and co-chaired the committee that drafted the Illinois Trust Code (enacted in 2020). Susan has written extensively on trust and estate law topics, with more than 30 published articles and several books.