Overview
Sarah Jacobson represents high net worth individuals and families in tax, estate planning and trust matters. Her practice is dedicated to assisting global families with some U.S. connection, including foreign families with U.S. beneficiaries and foreign individuals making U.S. investments. Sarah devises creative strategies to facilitate tax-efficient wealth transfers among U.S. and foreign clients for their wealth worldwide. She has significant experience dealing with complex, international trust issues and routinely provides advice to U.S. beneficiaries and foreign fiduciaries on the related U.S. tax and compliance implications.
Sarah also assists foreign clients with respect to their inbound investments in U.S. real estate. She regularly implements foreign grantor trust structures, provides advice on foreign nongrantor trusts with U.S. beneficiaries, including those with significant undistributed net income (UNI) and passive foreign investment company (PFIC) issues, and assists with tax advantageous restructuring through trust domestication, migration and decanting. She has represented family offices and assisted clients with establishing private trust companies. She also advises clients with pre-residency planning before they relocate to the United States and U.S. clients with planning in advance of expatriation.
Education and Credentials
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, LL.M., 2011
- University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 2008
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Florida State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2005
Admissions
- State of Florida
Affiliations
- Florida State Bar Association, Tax Section
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Recognition and Community
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Recognitions
Selected to the list of Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters), Tax, 2020
In The Media
Publications
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Why Expatriating from the US Requires Careful Tax Planning, Global Tax Weekly, February 16, 2020
- The Present Situation: A Roadmap for Foreign Parents Making Gifts to Children in the US, STEP Journal, August 1, 2017
- Tax Benefits for US Citizens & Companies, 2016
- A Pre-Residency Planning Guide to US Taxation for LatAm Clients Moving to Miami, Family Wealth Report, August 1, 2015
- LatAm Clients Investing In South Florida Real Estate: The Need-to-Knows, Family Wealth Report, June 1, 2015
- Smooth Move: US Tax Tips Every Top Executive Should Know Before Moving to the US, Global Tax Weekly, June 1, 2015
Media Mentions
- On the Move, Florida Bar News, February 1, 2022
- Day Pitney's 2022 Newly Promoted Partners Featured in BBA's Law Firm Newsletter, Boston Bar Association Law Firm Newsletter, January 13, 2022
- People On The Move: Career Changes in Real Estate, Law, Hospitality and More, January 10, 2022
Speaking Engagements
- Neither Here Nor There: Foreign Trusts and the Multinational Family, January 10, 2025
- Using Foreign Partnerships to Hold U.S. Situs Assets, Interplay with 663(b) and FAI Planning, 19th Annual International Estate Planning Institute, March 14, 2024