ATRA Makes it Permanent, For Now: What That Means for Your Clients
OSCAR LEE WISELEY, JR. is Director, Financial Strategies for Synovus Family Asset Management, a multi-family office of Synovus Trust Company, N.A. in Columbus, Georgia, where he assists clients of the family office with multi-generational wealth planning and advises the trust company on fiduciary matters. Prior to joining the family office in 2006, Mr. Wiseley was in private law practice for 11 years with the Bowden Spratt Law Firm, P.C., a boutique estate planning firm in Atlanta, Georgia where his practice focused on estate and tax planning, charitable planning, estate and trust administration and wealth transfer tax controversies. Prior to private practice he was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in Atlanta as an Estate Tax Attorney where he was involved in estate and gift tax audits on behalf of the Service and providing technical tax expertise to District Counsel for docketed tax court cases. An active speaker on estate planning issues to professional groups in Georgia, Mr. Wiseley is the immediate past Chair of the Fiduciary Section of the State Bar of Georgia and serves on the legislative committee and coordinates an ad hoc group of financial services firm professionals reviewing legislative proposals which impact corporate fiduciaries. He received his B.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Georgia and LL.M. in Taxation from Emory University School of Law.