K. Gabriel Heiser, J.D., has focused exclusively on estate planning and Medicaid eligibility planning, including trusts, estates, gifts, and related tax issues, since graduating from Boston University School of Law in 1983.
He also practiced in Massachusetts, where he was Chairman of the Estate Planning Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and in Tennessee, where he was the founder and first Chairman of the Nashville Bar Association’s Estate Planning Committee and where he served as President of the Middle Tennessee Planned Giving Council (1997).
Although recently retired from the active practice of law, during his 25-year c...Read More
K. Gabriel Heiser, J.D., has focused exclusively on estate planning and Medicaid eligibility planning, including trusts, estates, gifts, and related tax issues, since graduating from Boston University School of Law in 1983.
He also practiced in Massachusetts, where he was Chairman of the Estate Planning Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and in Tennessee, where he was the founder and first Chairman of the Nashville Bar Association’s Estate Planning Committee and where he served as President of the Middle Tennessee Planned Giving Council (1997).
Although recently retired from the active practice of law, during his 25-year career he was a long-time member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), an ACTEC Fellow—the highest designation for trust and estate attorneys in the U.S.—and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the country’s preeminent lawyer rating service.
Attorney Heiser has been a frequent seminar leader and participant in the areas of estate and gift tax, charitable gifts and trusts, Medicaid eligibility planning, and sophisticated estate planning. He taught as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the College for Financial Planning at David Lipscomb University, as an instructor in Estate Planning Law (1996-1998), and has been certified as an Estate Planning Law Specialist by The Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc., the only American Bar Association-accredited program for certification of an attorney as an estate planning specialist.
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC): Being elected to ACTEC is one of the highest honors an estate planning attorney can receive. ACTEC is a non-profit association composed of more than 2,600 of the most accomplished estate planning practitioners in the United States and Canada. To qualify for membership, a lawyer must have at least 10 years of experience in the active practice of probate and trust law or estate planning.
Lawyers and law professors are elected to be fellows by the other members, based on their outstanding reputation, exceptional skill, and substantial contributions to the field by lecturing, writing, teaching and participating in bar activities.
In addition to numerous articles he has written for professional journals, Heiser is the author of How to Protect Your Family's Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets, an annually updated 275-page consumer guide to Medicaid asset protection, available at www.MedicaidSecrets.com.