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Ronald Cresswell has vast experience advising, teaching and writing about tax and estate planning. Listed in the Trusts and Estates section of Best Lawyers in America, Mr. Cresswell plans, drafts, and implements estate planning documents, including wills, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, life insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, family limited partnerships, and charitable estate trusts. He also works on trust administration, including probate of wills, preparation of federal estate tax returns, and representation of fiduciaries and beneficiaries in connection with controversies in the probate and estate and gift tax areas, including will contests, fiduciary litigation, and modification and termination of irrevocable trusts. In addition, Mr. Cresswell assists clients in audit controversies with the Internal Revenue Service regarding estate and gift tax returns and trust law, federal tax law, and Medicaid aspects of the settlement of personal injury cases, including Section 142 trusts, special needs trusts, structured settlements, qualified settlement funds, and treasury bond trusts. Education LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 1970 J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1967 B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1964 Bar Admissions Texas Publications & Presentations Author/speaker, "Revocable Inter Vivos Trusts and Other Disability Planning Tools," State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course (1990). Chairman, State Bar of Texas Practice Skills Course, "Wills & Probate," (1989 and 1990). Author/speaker, "Subtleties in the Sophisticated Use of Revocable Living Trusts," Southwestern Legal Foundation (1991). Author/speaker, "House GRITs," State Bar of Texas Advanced Drafting: Estate Planning and Probate Course (1992). Author/speaker, "Medicaid Eligibility and Special Needs Trusts After OBRA '93 and Other Elder Law Matters," State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course (1994). Author/speaker, Planning and Drafting for Noncharitable Split Interest Trusts: QPRTs, GRATs and GRUTs, 42nd Annual Taxation Conference, University of Texas School of Law (1994). Author/speaker, "Drafting for Special Circumstances: Special Needs Trusts; Miller Trusts; Trusts for Medically Disabled Adult Child; Related Elder Law Issues," State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course (1996). Author/speaker, "GRITS/GRATS/GRUTS and Other Alphabet Soup Planning Techniques," Advanced Estate Planning Conference, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (1996). Author/speaker, "Estate Planning for Mid-Sized Estates," State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course (1998). Author/speaker, How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: GRITS, GRATS, and GRUTS, The Southwestern Legal Foundation Institute on Wills and Probate (1999). Author/speaker,Elder Law Drafting the Special Needs Trust Disabled Children Medicaid Qualification Issues and Miller Trusts, State Bar of Texas Advanced Drafting: Estate Planning and Probate Course (1999). Author, Texas Practice Guide: Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning, (West Publishing, 2000). Author/speaker, What Every Lawyer Really Needs to Know about Estate Planning under the 2001 Tax Reform Act, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, State Bar of Texas, Dallas, Texas (2002). Author/speaker, Using Incentive Clauses to Influence Behavior, Estate Planning Council of North Texas, Plano , Texas (2002). Author/speaker, Court Created Section 142 and Section 867 Trusts; Special Needs Trusts; and ARC of Texas Master Pooled Trusts, Intermediate Guardianship Seminar, Fort Worth , Texas (2002). Author/speaker,Recent Developments Affecting GRITs, GRATs and GRUTs, The Center for American and International Law, 41st Annual Institute on Wills and Probate, Dallas , Texas (2002). Author/speaker, "Elder Law Current Developments," Houston Estate Planning and Tax Forum (2003). Author/speaker, "Everything that Can Go Wrong with SNTs and How to Fix It," Special Needs Trust Seminar, The University of Texas School of Law and the Trust Financial Services Division of the Texas Bankers Association, Austin, Texas (2005; 2006) Articles Everything That Can Go Wrong With SNTs and How to Fix It 1/18/2006 Press Release Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Attorneys Named Texas Super Lawyers 2007 in Texas Monthly Magazine 10/10/2007 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2008 9/24/2007 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2007 10/6/2006 Locke Liddell & Sapp Attorneys Named Texas Super Lawyers 2006 In Texas Monthly Magazine 9/29/2006 Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Recognized Among The Best Lawyers In America 2006 6/29/2006 Three Locke Liddell & Sapp Partners Named Among Best Lawyers in Dallas for 2003 5/7/2003 Locke Liddell & Sapp's Lawyers Included in the Best Lawyers in America 2/4/2003 Professional History Partner in the law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp Professional Affiliations Listed in "Trusts and Estates" section of The Best Lawyers in America Listed in "The Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine Listed as one of the "Texas Super Lawyers" by Texas Monthly Magazine Listed in Who's Who in American Law Former President, Dallas Estate Planning Council Former Chairman, Probate, Trusts & Estate Section, Dallas Bar Association Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. |
