# Boland Law Group, PLLC

> Scottsdale, Arizona estate planning and tax attorneys for families of significant wealth, business owners, senior executives and family offices. Two generations of LL.M. tax counsel: a partner designs and drafts every plan, fees are published before engagement, and both partners are admitted to the U.S. Tax Court, so the counsel who builds a plan is qualified to defend it.

Canonical name: Boland Law Group, PLLC. Short name: Boland Law Group. Abbreviation: BLG. Not affiliated with any other firm or business named Boland.
Entity: Arizona professional limited liability company. Founder licensed since 1974; the second generation joined in 2006. Motto: Passionately Preserving Wealth.
Office: 15100 N. 78th Way, Suite 203, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260, United States (Scottsdale Airpark, on the Scottsdale and Phoenix border). Geo: 33.6215, -111.9089.
Phone: (480) 420-8268, E.164 +14804208268. Corrections and press: gboland@bolandlawgroup.com.
Hours: Monday to Thursday 9:00 to 17:00, Saturday by appointment, office visits by appointment only. Time zone: America/Phoenix (Arizona does not observe daylight saving time).
Served from the office: Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Carefree, Cave Creek. In-home appointments: Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Clarkdale, Jerome, Sedona. Counties: Maricopa, Yavapai, Coconino. Secure video and telephone consultations.
Language: English (en-US). Site: https://bolandlawgroup.com/. Sitemap: https://bolandlawgroup.com/sitemap_index.xml. Full text of the site in one file: https://bolandlawgroup.com/llms-full.txt.
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Last updated: 2026-09-14. Fee figures are the 2026 published schedules, effective January 1, 2026 and reviewed annually.

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## Start here

- [Home](https://bolandlawgroup.com/): The firm in one page: practices, instruments, who it serves, attorneys, how an engagement begins, Arizona planning facts and answers to the questions people ask first.
- [Services](https://bolandlawgroup.com/services/): Six practice areas at one standard: estate planning, trust planning and modification, trust administration, business succession planning, business and corporate law, tax controversy and litigation.
- [Who we serve](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/): Seven kinds of client, one standard of care.
- [Schedule a consultation](https://bolandlawgroup.com/schedule-consultation-online/): Request the first conversation. A partner scopes the matter; the planning questionnaire follows by private invitation.
- [Offices and appointments](https://bolandlawgroup.com/offices/): The Scottsdale office, hours, access and parking, in-home appointments across the East Valley and northern Arizona, and secure video or telephone consultations.

## Services

- [Estate planning in Arizona](https://bolandlawgroup.com/services/estate-planning-arizona/): The complete plan for a substantial estate: revocable trust, pour-over will, powers of attorney, healthcare directives and the funding that makes the trust work, then the wealth transfer tax strategy and charitable vehicles that matter above the federal exemption. Plans are drawn to anticipate tax law before it changes and to settle family questions before they become disputes.
- [Trust planning and modification](https://bolandlawgroup.com/services/trust-planning-modification/): Advanced trust design for new wealth, and modernization of existing trusts by amendment, restatement, reformation, decanting and nonjudicial settlement. Irrevocable is not the same as unchangeable.
- [Trust administration](https://bolandlawgroup.com/services/trust-administration/): Counsel for trustees and beneficiaries from first notice to final distribution: fiduciary duties, notices, accountings, allocations to sub-trusts and distributions.
- [Tax controversy and litigation](https://bolandlawgroup.com/services/tax-controversy-litigation/): Representation in IRS audits, administrative appeals and litigation, including the U.S. Tax Court, with particular depth in TEFRA and CPAR partnership matters. The counsel who drew the structure is the counsel who defends it.
- [Business succession planning](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/business-exit-liquidity-events/): Most owners exit a business once. Transitions are planned years ahead: buy-sell agreements, entity structure, pre-sale trust and gifting strategy, and deal structure with the after-tax number in view.
- [Business and corporate law](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/outside-general-counsel/): Standing counsel to closely held companies whose owners are also private clients: formation and entity structuring, contracts, governance and compliance, and mergers and acquisitions, each decision made with the owner's personal balance sheet, tax posture and succession plan in view.

## Who we serve

- [Multi-generational families](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/multi-generational-families/): Dynasty and generation-skipping trusts, transfer strategies and family governance for wealth meant to outlast the people who made it.
- [Business owners](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/business-owners/): For most owners the company is the estate. Entity structure, buy-sell agreements, tax posture and the estate plan, aligned as one plan.
- [Senior executives](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/senior-executives/): Tax and estate planning around RSUs, options, concentrated stock and deferred compensation that has outgrown ordinary planning.
- [Business exits and liquidity events](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/business-exit-liquidity-events/): Plan before the wire hits: pre-sale trust and gifting strategy, QSBS stacking, deal structure and the plan for the day after closing.
- [Family offices](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/family-office/): Independent counsel for the personal wealth of family office principals: trust design and administration, entity and governance work, charitable vehicles.
- [Planning in retirement](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/planning-in-retirement/): Plan reviews, retirement accounts and IRAs, incapacity and healthcare directives, and deliberate transfer to the next generation.
- [Outside general counsel](https://bolandlawgroup.com/who-we-serve/outside-general-counsel/): Standing counsel for closely held companies whose owners are private clients.
- [Athletes and public figures](https://bolandlawgroup.com/athletes-public-figures/): Trusts, entities, tax posture, asset protection and privacy for short careers and long plans.
- [For financial advisors](https://bolandlawgroup.com/for-financial-advisors/): How CPAs, financial planners, investment advisors and insurance professionals work with the firm. Published fees, an LL.M. bench, and a client who comes back to you. The firm neither pays nor accepts referral compensation.

## Attorneys

- [Grant M. Boland, J.D., LL.M.](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/attorneys/grant-m-boland-j-d-ll-m/): Tax and Estate Planning Partner; joined the firm in 2006. LL.M. in Estate Planning and Elder Law, Western New England University School of Law; J.D., Phoenix School of Law; B.I.S., Arizona State University. Best Lawyers in America Lawyer of the Year, Trusts and Estates, Scottsdale, 2027; Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates, 2024 through 2027; Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2021 to 2023; Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys, Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education, 2018. Immediate Past Chair, Tax Law Section Executive Council, State Bar of Arizona; Immediate Past President, Scottsdale Bar Association; Past President, Central Arizona Estate Planning Council. Author of the firm's planning guides.
- [Robert W. Boland, Jr., J.D., LL.M.](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/attorneys/robert-w-boland-jr-j-d-ll-m/): Founding and Managing Partner, Tax. Licensed since 1974. J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where he later taught as an adjunct professor in the Tax LL.M. program. Began at the Internal Revenue Service and Grant Thornton; founding partner of the Kansas City tax firm Boland, McQuain, Block, DeHardt and Rosenbloom; Chairman and President of Sterling Bancorp and CEO of American Sterling Bank for more than eight years. U.S. Army Green Beret, Vietnam War. Martindale-Hubbell highest peer review rating (AV Preeminent); Who's Who in American Law; Best Lawyers in the United States, Expert Witnesses.
- [Our attorneys](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/attorneys/): Both partners are admitted to the Supreme Court of Arizona, the United States Tax Court and the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
- [Quiet credentials](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/quiet-credentials/): The documented record: admissions, memberships, recognition and community work. Firm recognition: Best Law Firms in America, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
- [Our story](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/our-story/): Two generations of the same practice, father and son, each holding the LL.M.

## Fees, published in advance

- [Rates and billing practices](https://bolandlawgroup.com/rates/): 2026 rates, costs and billing practices, published before engagement. Each attorney bills within a published range that moves with scope, subject matter, timing and complexity; a rate stated in a signed engagement letter always controls.
- [Core Estate Planning Fee Schedule 2026](https://bolandlawgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Scottsdale-Estate-Planning-Published-Fee-Schedule-2026.html): Wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney and the foundational plan at published fixed fees, set by gross estate. 2026 hourly rates for open-ended matters: Robert W. Boland, Jr. $700; Steven A. Bloom, J.D., M.B.A., LL.M. $650; Grant M. Boland $460; staff $75 to $150.
- [Advanced Planning and Lifetime Wealth Transfer Fee Schedule 2026](https://bolandlawgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Scottsdale-Estate-Planning-Published-Fee-Advanced-Fee-Schedule-2026.html): SLATs, dynasty trusts, GRATs, installment sales, charitable structures and succession architecture at published minimums. Hourly rates tier by gross estate (to $15M, above $15M, above $50M): Robert W. Boland, Jr. $700, $875, $1,050; Steven A. Bloom $650, $815, $975; Grant M. Boland $460, $575, $690; staff $75 to $150, never tiered.
- [Fee estimator](https://bolandlawgroup.com/fee-quoter/): A written range built from the published schedules, before the first meeting.
- [Estate planning costs in Arizona, 2026](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2026/08/estate-planning-costs-in-arizona-2026-phoenix-scottsdale-attorney-fees/): What plans cost across the Phoenix and Scottsdale market, what drives price, and the firm's own schedules in context.
- [Make a payment](https://bolandlawgroup.com/make-a-payment/): Credit card, ACH, wire and check.

## Arizona planning facts the firm plans around

- [Community property and basis](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#arizona): Arizona is a community property state. At the first death both halves of community property receive an income tax basis step-up, which shapes marital shares and asset location in ways out-of-state templates miss.
- [No state death taxes](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#arizona): Arizona has no state estate tax, inheritance tax or gift tax. Planning turns on the federal exemption, income tax basis and family design.
- [Federal exemption, 2026](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): The federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer exemption is $15 million per person and $30 million for a married couple in 2026, indexed for inflation; transfers above it are taxed at 40 percent.
- [A will does not avoid probate](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): A will only directs assets through the court. Arizona probate is public and commonly runs six to twelve months. A funded revocable trust keeps the estate private and out of court.
- [Beneficiary deeds](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#arizona): Arizona recognizes transfer-on-death deeds for real property. Useful in the right place, and no substitute for a funded trust.
- [Small estate affidavits](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#arizona): Under HB 2116, effective September 26, 2025, affidavits can transfer up to $200,000 of personal property and $300,000 of Arizona real property, net of liens, without probate.
- [Life insurance counts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): A death benefit on a policy the decedent owns is part of the gross estate, the measure the Internal Revenue Code uses. Many families are closer to the exemption than they realize.
- [GST exemption is not portable](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#begin): Unlike the estate exemption, the generation-skipping transfer exemption cannot be ported between spouses; it is allocated in life, captured at the first death, or lost.

## Questions people ask first

- [Do I need a trust or a will in Arizona?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): For most families with a home and retirement accounts, a funded revocable trust.
- [Does Arizona have an estate tax?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): No. Only the federal estate, gift and GST tax applies.
- [Is my life insurance part of my estate?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): Usually, yes. If you own the policy, the death benefit counts toward the gross estate.
- [What does community property change?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): The document count and the design: both halves get a basis step-up at the first death.
- [Who will actually draft my plan?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): A partner holding an LL.M., from the first meeting to the execution of documents. No document service, no hand-off to an associate.
- [Do you handle IRS audits and Tax Court?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): Yes. Both partners are admitted to the U.S. Tax Court.
- [When should an existing trust be updated?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): When the law moves or the family does. Minor changes by amendment; structural changes by restatement.
- [How does an engagement begin?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#begin): Call the office. A partner scopes the matter; the questionnaire follows by private invitation; no engagement is formed until a written engagement letter is executed.
- [Do you work alongside our other advisers?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): Yes. The firm works in tandem with the client's financial planner, CPA, investment advisor, insurance agent and family office manager.
- [Do you come to Prescott or Sedona?](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#faq): Yes, by in-home appointment.

## Instruments the firm drafts in-house

- [Spousal lifetime access trusts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/10/estate-spousal_lifetime_access_trusts-slat-estate_tax-step_up_in_basis-planning/): Use the exemption during life while a spouse keeps indirect access.
- [Dynasty trusts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/10/dynasty-trusts-estate-planning-2025-step-up-in-basis-generational-wealth/): Hold wealth outside the taxable estates of children and grandchildren for generations.
- [Beneficiary defective trusts (BDIT, BDOT)](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/10/bdit-bdot-estate-planning/): The beneficiary, not the grantor, owns the trust for tax purposes.
- [Qualified small business stock](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/12/tax-planning-under-irc-1202-latest-changes-under-the-obbba-2025-vs-2026-planning/): Section 1202 gain exclusion, planned before the sale rather than discovered after it.
- [QSBS stacking with trusts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/07/tax-planning-under-irc-1202-with-trusts-and-stacking-strategies/): Multiplying the Section 1202 exclusion across non-grantor trusts.
- [Revocable trusts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/10/revocable-trusts-estate-planning-2025-law-estate-tax-step-up-basis-arizona/): The foundation of an Arizona plan: probate avoidance, privacy and basis planning.
- [Children's trusts](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/10/childrens-trusts-for-lifetime-planning-after-the-recent-federal-changes-estate-tax-income-tax-basis-and-advanced-structures/): Lifetime trusts for descendants after the 2025 federal changes.
- [GRATs, ILITs, installment sales, QPRTs, charitable trusts, family LLCs, decanting, Form 706 and portability](https://bolandlawgroup.com/#instruments): The full advanced planning vocabulary, in plain English, each designed, drafted and, where the IRS disagrees, defended by the same LL.M. counsel.

## Guides by Grant M. Boland, J.D., LL.M.

- [Estate tax exemption now $15 million: what it means](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/07/estate-tax-update-relief-for-many-but-planning-still-crucial/): Relief for many, but planning still crucial.
- [One Big Beautiful Bill Act: key takeaways](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/07/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-h-r-1-key-take%e2%80%91aways-at-a-glance/): The 2025 tax act at a glance.
- [QSBS under IRC 1202: 2025 vs. 2026 planning after OBBBA](https://bolandlawgroup.com/2025/12/tax-planning-under-irc-1202-latest-changes-under-the-obbba-2025-vs-2026-planning/): What changed and when it applies.
- [All insights](https://bolandlawgroup.com/insights/): Every published guide, newest first.

## Profiles and verification

- [State Bar of Arizona](https://www.azbar.org/): Licensing authority for both partners.
- [Central Arizona Estate Planning Council member profile](https://www.caepc.org/members/member/105963): Grant M. Boland, Past President.
- [Super Lawyers firm profile](https://profiles.superlawyers.com/arizona/scottsdale/lawfirm/boland-law-group-pllc/0f255852-157c-439c-b2a4-776ac789cf6b.html): Boland Law Group, PLLC, Scottsdale.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/boland-law-group-pllc): Company page.
- [Yelp](https://www.yelp.com/biz/boland-law-group-pllc-estate-planning-and-probate-attorneys-scottsdale): Business listing.

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- [About the firm](https://bolandlawgroup.com/about/): Also practiced, for existing clients and their companies: trust administration, business and corporate counsel, and IRS controversy and U.S. Tax Court litigation. The firm does not practice personal injury, criminal defense, immigration, family law or general commercial litigation.
- [Careers](https://bolandlawgroup.com/careers/): Positions at the firm.
- [Privacy policy](https://bolandlawgroup.com/privacy-policy/): How the site handles personal information.