Neil T. Goltermann | Lisle Estate Lawyer

Neil T. Goltermann concentrates his practice in estate planning, probate administration, business transactions and planning, corporate law, and real estate.

Neil has a comprehensive estate planning practice that includes the areas of wills , trusts , advanced estate planning, asset protection planning , probate and trust administration .  His practice involves assisting clients plan for the lifetime management, protection and distribution of their assets, including individuals and families with high net worth and advising individuals and companies with regard to business succession planning, probate and trust administration.  In his practice, Neil has also represented entrepreneurs, professionals, and small and mid-size businesses in the full range of business organization and operations, buy-sell and employment agreements, commercial transactions, employment law and practice, and business succession.

Neil is a member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys, American Bar Association, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Illinois State Bar Association, Trusts & Estates Section, DuPage County Bar Association, Estate Planning and Probate Committee, DuPage County Estate Planning Council, Suburban Chicago Planned Giving Council, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association.

Neil resides in Naperville, Illinois with his wife, Julie and three children.  He has volunteered in a number of different capacities as a coach for youth sports, and with various community and church activities.  Neil is the co-chair of the DuPage Community Foundation's Next Generation Initiative Steering Committee.  Currently, he serves as an assistant scoutmaster with his son's Boy Scout Troop 505 in Naperville .  He served two terms as the Clerk of Session for Knox Presbyterian Church of Naperville, where he is also an elder.  He also served as a co-moderator for Knox's Permanent Funds Ministry Committee, assisting in the organization and management of the church's endowment fund.  When he is not otherwise preoccupied, Neil trains for and runs in triathlons and bicycle events.

• Illinois State Bar Association | Member
  DuPage County Bar Association | Committee Chair
  DuPage County Estate Planning Council | Member
  Suburban Chicago Planned Giving Council | Director
  DuPage Community Foundation Next Generation Initiative | Steering Committee

• Distinguished | Martindale-Hubbell | 2019

• Union Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Joliet v. Village of New Lenox, 152 Ill. App. 3d 919, 505 N.E.2d 1, app. den., 116 Ill.2d 577, 515 N.E.2d 128 (1987), cert. den. 485 U.S. 906 (1988)

• Reed-Custer Cmty. Unit School Dist. No. 255-U v. Pollution Control Bd., 232 Ill. App. 3d 571, 597 N.E.2d 802 (1992)

• Matter of Collector's Application for Judgment for Taxes Paid Under Protest for Year 1988, 223 Ill. App. 3d 896, 585 N.E.2d 110, app. den. 145 Ill.2d 634 (1992)

• In re County Collector, 229 Ill. App. 3d 641, 593 N.E.2d 1134, app. den. 146 Ill.2d 628, (1992)

• Channahon Park Dist., Will County v. Bosworth, 145 Ill. App. 3d 820, 495 N.E.2d 1367 (1986)

• DCBA Brief The Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association | Snowbirds, Reverse Snowbirds, and the Illinois Income Tax Act | 2012
  DCBA Brief The Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association | The Related Trustee: Old Lessons Learned from New Case Law | 2011

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