Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
  
Award received November 2009
Ronald D. Aucutt
McGuireWoods, LLP

Ronald D. Aucutt is a partner in the McLean, Virginia (Tysons Corner) office of McGuireWoods LLP and is the chair of the firm's Private Wealth Services Group. Mr. Aucutt concentrates on planning and controversy matters involving the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, the income taxation of trusts and estates, the rules regarding tax-exempt organizations and charitable contributions, and related tax issues. He has extensive experience in assisting clients with the transfer of wealth from one generation to another, particularly including the orderly and tax-efficient succession of family-owned businesses. He also advises lawyers and other professionals on tax planning and controversy issues across the entire spectrum of estate planning and charitable giving, including the complex rules governing generation-skipping transfers under chapter 13 and the special valuation rules under chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code. Mr. Aucutt is experienced in resolving tax issues through rulings and technical advice in the Internal Revenue Service's National Office and in administrative appeals throughout the country. He has contributed to the formation of estate tax policy through legislation and has served as an expert witness in estate and gift tax matters.

Mr. Aucutt is a Fellow and former President of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), an academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and former member of its Executive Council, a former Vice Chair (Committee Operations) of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation, the Liaison from the Section of Taxation to the Probate and Trust Division of the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and the American Bar Foundation, the Moderator of the Evangelical Free Church of America, and a member of the Christian Legal Society. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the Editorial Board of Estate Planning, the Board of Advisors of Business Entities, Tax Management's Advisory Board on Estates, Gifts, and Trusts, and the Editorial Advisory Board of Shannon Pratt's Business Valuation UpdateŽ. He was awarded the 1995-1996 Estate Planner of the Year Award by the Washington, D.C. Estate Planning Council and was named one of "Washington's 50 Best Lawyers" in the February 1997 issue of Washingtonian magazine, one of the 45 "Best Trusts and Estates Lawyers in the U.S." in the August 1998 issue of Town & Country magazine, a "Top Washington Lawyer" in the September 10-16, 2004 issue of the Washington Business Journal, and one of the twelve "Top Trusts and Estates Lawyers" of the Washington, D.C. area in the September 27, 2004 issue of Legal Times. His biography appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the World, and The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Aucutt received a B.A. degree in 1967 and a J.D. degree in 1975, both from the University of Minnesota. He has been a lecturer in law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has lectured on estate planning subjects at over one hundred tax institutes and conferences nationwide and is the author of more than fifty published articles on estate planning and other tax subjects. Mr. Aucutt is co-author of Structuring Estate Freezes, published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1996.

Ron and his wife Bunny live in Falls Church, Virginia. They have two sons; David graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, in 2005 and is a high school teacher and football coach in Chicago. Jamie graduated from Wheaton in May 2008 and is considering graduate school.

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