Jill Lebowitz

Partner

973-631-6046
Jill Lebowitz

Jill Lebowitz

Partner

jlebowitz@cmg.law
350 Mount Kemble Avenue
P.O. Box 1917
Morristown, NJ 07962
Direct 973-631-6046
Fax (973) 267-6442

1200 Route 22 East
Suite 2000
Bridgewater Township, NJ 08807
Phone 973-267-0058
Fax 973-267-6442
350 Mount Kemble Avenue
P.O. Box 1917
Morristown, NJ 07962

1200 Route 22 East
Suite 2000
Bridgewater Township, NJ 08807

Jill Lebowitz is a Partner and Co-Practice Group Leader in the Firm's Estate, Trust and Taxation Group.

Jill devotes her practice to estate planning, trust and estate administration, family creation,  fiduciary litigation, and counseling tax-exempt organizations. Jill is experienced in drafting sophisticated estate planning instruments and counseling individuals and families regarding estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax issues. She advises clients on the development of both simple and complex estate plans, philanthropic planning, and business succession issues. She drafts estate planning instruments including wills, revocable living trusts, insurance trusts, dynasty trusts, spousal lifetime access trusts, charitable trusts,grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, shareholder agreements, limited liability company operating agreements, durable powers of attorney, and advance directives for health care.  Jill also provides advice in the family creation area, including adoption of infants and children by individuals, couples, and multiple parents, confirmatory adoption to secure parentage rights, counsel in connection with Assisted Reproductive Technology for intended parents and gestational carriers throughout the surrogacy process, and advice on related income and transfer tax issues.   

Additionally, Jill handles all aspects of trust and estate administration, as well as fiduciary litigation. She prepares federal and state estate and inheritance tax returns and federal gift tax returns. She drafts disclaimers and agreements regarding post-mortem planning, informal distribution agreements, judicial fiduciary accountings, and handles court proceedings to effect final distribution of estates and trusts. She also counsels individuals and financial institutions regarding their fiduciary duties as personal representatives and trustees, including advising on legal and tax issues, as well as issues in connection with administering trusts. Jill also assists individuals, families, and fiduciaries with all aspects of fiduciary litigation.

Jill regularly advises tax-exempt organizations regarding federal tax exemption issues, state charitable registration filings, and governance issues. On behalf of tax-exempt organizations, she drafts nonprofit corporation documents and prepares federal applications for tax-exempt status, state charitable registration filings, and state property tax and sales tax exemption applications. Jill has extensive experience advising individuals, family and corporate foundations, and tax-exempt organizations on nonprofit corporate governance, private foundation excise taxes, domestic and international grant-making, executive compensation, excess benefit rules and intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income, scholarship programs, and fundraising issues.

Jill is a Fellow and New Jersey State Chair-Elect of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a national organization of approximately 2,400 lawyers elected to membership by demonstrating the highest level of integrity, commitment to the profession, competence, and experience as trust and estate counselors. She has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America© (2024) for Trusts and Estates. This list is published by Best Lawyers.  A description of the selection methodology is available here.  No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.  Jill has also been selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers© in the Estate & Probate section. This award is conferred by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found here.  No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Awards and Honors

2024 Recipient of the Dorothy G. Black Distinguished Service Award from the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Executive Women of New Jersey 2024 Salute to the Policy Makers Award Honoree for outstanding professional achievements and commitment to advancing women’s representation in leadership roles.

Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America© (2024 - 2025) for Trusts and Estates. This list is published by Best Lawyers.  A description of the selection methodology is available here.  No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. 

Selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers© in the Estate & Probate section. This award is conferred by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found here.  No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Memberships

Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

  • New Jersey State Chair-Elect
  • Estate and Gift Tax Committee

American Bar Association

  • Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section

LGBTQ+ Bar Association

  • Family Law Institute Member

New Jersey State Bar Association

  • Past Chair, Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section
  • Board of Consultors, Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section
  • LGBTQ Rights Section
  • Elder and Disability Law Section

Somerset County Bar Association

Greater Middlesex/Somerset Estate Planning Council

  • Past President
  • Board of Trustees

Newark Museum Business & Community Council (2007-2016)

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350 Mount Kemble Avenue
P.O. Box 1917
Morristown, NJ 07962
Direct 973-631-6046
Fax (973) 267-6442

1200 Route 22 East
Suite 2000
Bridgewater Township, NJ 08807
Phone 973-267-0058
Fax 973-267-6442
Services
Education
  • Rutgers School of Law (J.D., 1996)
  • New York University School of Law (L.L.M., 2000)
  • New York University (B.A., 1989)
Professional Admissions
  • State of New Jersey (1996)