Practice Areas

Estate Planning and Probate

We assist business clients in the development and implementation of comprehensive lifetime estate plans that carefully balance personal, tax and administrative concerns. In addition to estate planning, we also assist clients with Probate and Estate Administration. Our attorneys strive to preserve our clients' current income and assets, minimize adverse tax consequences and insure the optimum financial benefit for present and future generations by utilizing a variety of tax saving instruments, including:

Wills
Pour-over wills
Revocable management trusts (living trusts)
Marital deduction trusts
Qualified domestic trust (non-U.S. citizens)
Credit shelter trusts
Life insurance planning
Beneficiary designations
Irrevocable life insurance trust
Split dollar purchase
Crummey trusts

For more complicated estates, we also provide counsel regarding:

Gifting Strategies
- Annual exclusion
- Lifetime exemption
- Partition
- Gift splitting
Second-Generation Planning
- Generation-skipping transfer tax and exemption planning
- Dynasty trust
Charitable Planning
- Charitable gifts
- Charitable remainder trusts
- Charitable lead trusts
- Private foundations
- Public foundations
- Supporting organizations
Closely Held Businesses
- Succession planning
- Buy-sell agreements
Estate Freezing
- Family limited partnerships
- Limited liability companies
- Grantor retained annuity trusts
- Sale to defective trusts
- Installment sales
- Private annuities
- Qualified personal residence trust
Pre-IPO Planning
- Qualified stock options
- Nonqualified stock options
- Restricted stock

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Our firm and attorneys handle cases throughout Texas including but not limited to the folllowing areas: Dallas, Houston, Abilene, Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, Carrollton, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, Mesquite, Pasadena, Plano, Waco, Taylor, Potter, Tarrant, Travis, Jefferson, Cameron, Denton, Nueces, Dallas, El Paso, Tarrant, Harris, Webb, Lubbock, Hidalgo, Collin, Bexar, McLennan and more.

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