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Estate Planning & Wealth Transfer

We design estate plans that protect assets, minimize taxes, and provide clear direction for families across generations. Our approach goes beyond documents—we focus on aligning legal structures with family dynamics, business interests, and long-term goals.

From foundational plans to advanced wealth-transfer strategies, we advise clients with significant assets, real estate holdings, or closely held businesses. Plans are built to be flexible, administrable, and resilient over time.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Wills and trusts
  • Advanced trust planning
  • Generation-skipping and legacy planning
  • Estate and gift tax minimization
  • Planning for business owners
  • Fiduciary selection and structuring

Asset Protection

We help clients lawfully structure ownership of assets to reduce exposure to creditors, litigation, and unforeseen risks. Asset-protection planning is most effective when done proactively, and we work closely with clients to implement strategies well before claims arise.

Our work integrates entity law, trust planning, and real-estate structuring to create layered, defensible arrangements tailored to each client’s risk profile.

Representative Matters Include:
  • LLC and limited partnership structures
  • Trust-based asset-protection strategies
  • Homestead and exemption planning
  • Segregation of business and personal assets
  • Planning for professionals and entrepreneurs
  • Restructuring existing ownership arrangements

Business Planning & Succession

We advise entrepreneurs and business owners at every stage of the business lifecycle, from formation through growth, succession, and exit. Our focus is on building structures that support operations, manage risk, and align economic interests among owners.

We frequently work with family-owned and closely held businesses where planning must account for governance, succession, and tax efficiency.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Wills and trusts
  • Advanced trust planning
  • Generation-skipping and legacy planning
  • Estate and gift tax minimization
  • Planning for business owners
  • Fiduciary selection and structuring

Probate & Guardianship

We guide families, fiduciaries, and beneficiaries through probate and guardianship matters with precision, discretion, and efficiency. Whether the issue involves administering an estate, resolving disputes among heirs, or protecting an incapacitated loved one, our focus is on navigating Texas probate courts with minimal friction and maximum clarity.

We regularly handle both routine and contested matters, including complex estates with business interests, real estate holdings, or family conflicts. In guardianship cases, we balance legal compliance with the human realities involved, advocating for solutions that protect vulnerable individuals while respecting family dynamics and long-term planning goals.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Independent and dependent estate administration
  • Will contests and heirship disputes
  • Executor, trustee, and fiduciary litigation
  • Guardianship applications and alternatives to guardianship
  • Accountings, removals, and fiduciary defense
  • Probate litigation involving business or real estate assets

Business & Commercial Litigation

We represent business owners, partners, and closely held entities in high-stakes commercial disputes. Our practice is built around resolving conflicts that arise at the intersection of ownership, control, and money—often in situations where relationships have broken down and significant assets are at risk.

Drawing on deep experience with entity governance and fiduciary duties, we approach these cases strategically, whether through negotiation, litigation, or court-ordered remedies. We are particularly adept at disputes involving closely held companies, where legal outcomes must account for both financial realities and long-term business consequences.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Shareholder and member disputes
  • Breach of fiduciary duty claims
  • Business divorces and buyout disputes
  • Contract and fraud litigation
  • Books-and-records demands
  • Receiverships and injunctive relief

Oil & Gas

We advise mineral owners, operators, and investors on oil and gas matters involving ownership, development, and disputes. Our work ranges from transactional issues to litigation arising out of complex title histories, royalty calculations, and operating relationships.

With a strong grounding in Texas property and contract law, we help clients protect and monetize mineral interests while resolving conflicts efficiently. We are particularly experienced in disputes that require careful analysis of leases, assignments, and historical conveyances.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Mineral and royalty ownership disputes
  • Lease interpretation and enforcement
  • Royalty underpayment claims
  • Surface use and access issues

Real Estate

We handle a broad range of real estate matters for individuals, families, and closely held entities, spanning both transactions and disputes. Our work often involves high-value assets, layered ownership structures, and issues that require both transactional precision and litigation experience.

Whether guiding clients through acquisitions and development or resolving ownership conflicts and enforcing property rights, we focus on practical outcomes grounded in Texas property law.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Purchase, sale, and financing of commercial, residential, and agricultural property
  • Entity structuring for acquisitions and development
  • Lease negotiation and drafting (commercial and residential)
  • Real estate disputes and quiet title actions
  • Co-owner and partition disputes
  • Easements, access, and boundary disputes
  • Property issues in estates and trusts
  • Real estate-related litigation involving entities

Personal Injury Litigation

We represent clients in personal injury matters involving serious harm, wrongful death, and complex liability disputes. These cases require thorough investigation of the facts, coordination with experts, and a command of applicable law, and we approach them with careful preparation and strategic focus.

Our role is to evaluate claims realistically, guide clients through a demanding legal process, and pursue full accountability where negligence or wrongful conduct has caused harm.

Representative Matters Include:
  • Motor vehicle and trucking accidents
  • Premises liability and slip-and-fall injuries
  • Medical malpractice and surgical errors
  • Wrongful death claims
  • Workplace and construction injuries

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Whether you are planning for the future or facing a dispute, we provide strategic, steady counsel across Texas.

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