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Areas of Practice:
Estate Planning
Charitable Planning
Charitable Organizations & Foundations
Probate & Trust and Estate Administration
Family Business Planning
Estate and Gift Taxation
My practice consists of performing analysis and planning for individuals with regard to gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes; charitable and other lifetime and testamentary transfers; probate; and estate and trust administration. My practice includes the drafting and advising with regard to the following:
Wills;
Revocable Trusts;
Durable Powers of Attorney;
Health Care Powers of Attorney;
Living Wills;
Beneficiary Designations;
Beneficiary Deeds;
Generation-Skipping Transfer Trusts;
Life Insurance Trusts;
Grantor Trusts;
Special Needs Trusts;
Qualified Personal Residence Trusts;
Purchase Agreements:
Promissory Notes;
Assignments;
Charitable Remainder Trusts;
Charitable Lead Trusts;
Charitable Organizations;
Private Foundations;
Supporting Organizations;
Donor Advised Funds;
Spreadsheet Analysis;
Flowchart Presentation;
Estate Tax Returns;
Gift Tax Returns;
Estate & Trust Administration;
Family Settlements;
Disclaimers;
Buy/Sell Agreements;
Shareholders' Agreements;
Limited Partnerships; and
Limited Liability Companies.
Year Joined Organization:
1998
Bar Admissions:
Arkansas, 1992
Tennessee, 1993
Education:
University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, FL , July, 1993
LL.M., Taxation
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Leflar Law Center, Fayetteville, AR , May, 1992
J.D.
Honors: With Honors
Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas, May, 1989
B.B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
Major: Accounting
Honors and Awards:
Best Lawyers in America - Non-Profit/Charities, 2007 - 2008
Best Lawyers in America - Trusts & Estates, 2007 - 2008
Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE Presenter, 2002
Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE Presenter, 2003
Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE Presenter, 2006
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Arkansas Bar Association, 1992 - Present Member
National Committee of Planned Giving - Arkansas Chapter, 1998 - Present Past Director & Past President
Central Arkansas Estate Council, 1998 - Present Past President & Director
UAMS Consortium, 1999 - Present Past Chairperson
Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation Professional Advisory Committee, 1999 - Present Member
Leave a Legacy Arkansas, 2002 - Present Past Chairperson
Past Employment Positions:
Holton, Howard & Goodman, Nashville, TN, Associate, 1993 - 1998
Birth Information:
1967, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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