Daniel Durst

Practice Areas

Private Client & Fiduciary Services

Wealth Transfer Planning

Business Succession Planning

Corporate

Tax Law

Tax Controversy

Fiduciary Litigation

Career

Dan regularly assists high net worth individuals, business owners and professionals with their estate planning needs, including the preparation of wills and trusts such as revocable trusts, insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and charitable lead and remainder trusts. He has represented individuals around the country and internationally.

Dan has extensive experience with the creation and administration of family limited partnerships and limited liability companies and transferring interests in those entities by gift or sale. He works frequently with valuation experts engaged to value interests in closely-held entities, real estate, tangible personal property and other hard-to-value assets related to such estate planning.

Dan also enjoys his many opportunities to represent and work with fiduciaries administering trusts and estates. Related to this work, Dan spends a significant amount of time preparing, and advising others on the preparation of, gift tax returns, estate tax returns (including estate tax returns for non-resident non-citizens) and fiduciary income tax returns.

Dan was recognized as an Up & Coming Lawyer in the 2019 & 2020 Chambers High Net Worth Guide for Private Wealth Law and ranked as a "Band 3" attorney in 2021. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Trusts and Estates Law (2018-present), in Virginia Business magazine among the "Legal Elite" (2019-present) and he has been listed in Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Stars for Tax Law (2017-2018). He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and currently serves as the Chair of the Wills, Trusts & Estates Section of the Virginia Bar Association.

Dan earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Virginia Tax Review. He received a B.A. in History from Brigham Young University.