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• Ann Duke
• Walter P. Eells
• John M. Erdek
• Stacey L. Fuller
• J. Stoddard Hayes Jr.
• Kevin Holleran
• Roger N. Huggins
• Sandra L. Knapp
• Stephen R. McDonnell
• Patrick M. McKenna
• Michael F. Merlie
• Benjamin R. Messing
• Maureen M. Nacey
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• Mark L. Tunnell
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Attorney Profiles

J. Stoddard Hayes Jr.

E-mail: jhayes@gawthrop.com

J. Stoddard Hayes, Jr., ("Tod") represents individuals with significant wealth in their estate planning and trust and estate administration matters. He concentrates his practice in succession planning for businesses and farms and matters involving complex generation-skipping transfers. He lectures regularly to professional groups on tax and estate planning topics, including conservation easements, planning for family business owners, and the tax aspects of charitable giving techniques.

Mr. Hayes is past Chairman of the American Bankers' Association Trust Division's Taxation Committee and, in that capacity, testified before the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Internal Revenue Service on various topics, including Estate Tax Reform, the repeal of the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, the repeal of the Throwback Rules and Reform of the Taxation of Trusts and Estates, revision to regulations governing Private Foundations, and other matters.

• Areas of Practice:

• Estate Planning
• Business Succession Planning
• Trust and Estate Administration
• Personal and Fiduciary Income Taxation
• Equine Law
• Non-Profit Corporation Law

• Bar Admissions:

• Pennsylvania, 1974
• Maryland, 2007

• Education:

• University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC, J.D., with High Honors
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, B.S., Corporate Finance

• Classes/Seminars Taught:

• Income Tax of Decedents' Estates and Trust, Widener University School of Law, 1988 - 1996
• Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Widener University School of Law, 1986 - 1987
• Estate Planning for the Family Business Owner (Course Planner), Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Fundamentals of Will Drafting, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Estate Administration, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
• Estate Planning with Conservation Easements, Pennsylvania Bar Institute

• Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Chester County Community Foundation, West Chester, PA, 2008 - Present, Board Member
• MMI Preparatory School, Freeland, PA, 2000 - Present, Board Member
• Sophia G. Coxe Charitable Trust Fund, Inc., Drifton, PA, 1985 - Present, Treasurer and Former President, Board Member
• John Boyer Memorial Scholarship Trust, Philadelphia, PA, 1996 - Present, Treasurer, Trustee
• Chester County Bar Association, West Chester, PA, Co-Chair Probate Section
• Maryland, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations, Member
• Estate Planning Counsel of Chester County, Member and Past President
• Estate Planning Counsel of Delaware, Member and Past President

• Past Employment Positions:

• The Haverford Trust Company, Radnor, PA, Director, 2006 - Present
• Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing, West Chester, PA, Shareholder, 1994 - 2007
• Christiana Bank & Trust Company, Wilmington, DE, Director, 1996 - 2004
• Duane Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA, Associate Attorney, 1974 - 1976
• Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, DE, Vice President and Senior Trust Counsel, 1976 - 1994