Cynthia T. Fenninger

Cyndy Fenninger is a partner at Orsbon & Fenninger, LLP. She is a member of the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law sections of the American Bar Association and the Taxation section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is a North Carolina State Bar certified specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. Ms. Fenninger has extensive experience in a broad range of federal and state income, estate, and gift tax issues. She regularly advises and represents clients in the following areas: Implementing sophisticated estate planning techniques to minimize the impact of estate inheritance, and income taxes on a decedent's estate, including charitable trusts, grantor retained trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and other tax-savings devices; Creating living trusts to enable management and conservation of assets, enhance tax savings and avoid probate; Establishing and implementing irrevocable life insurance trusts; Handling estate administration matters with an emphasis on valuation issues; Preparing of state and federal gift and estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns; Advising fiduciaries concerning their powers and duties; Coordinating retirement plan benefits in the estate planning setting; and Gift planning to facilitate the transfer of assets during life at minimal gift tax cost and planning and carrying out a variety of tax-free reorganizations involving family. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Cynthia T. Fenninger included in a Super Lawyers® list Other Sources of Feedback About Cynthia T. Fenninger Included on the 2026North Carolina Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2024 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2023 North Carolina Super Lawyers list 2022 North Carolina Super Lawyers list

• North Carolina, 1993