Helping Our Clients With 

Estate Planning and Probate

Brackett & Ellis provides a comprehensive range of legal services in estate planning, probate and tax as well as estate and trust litigation. We represent individuals, corporate trustees and executors, grantors, beneficiaries and heirs.

Our estate planning and probate attorneys include a Certified Public Accountant as well as the following attorneys who are board certified in Estate Planning and Probate and Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization:

Jim Creel, Board Certified in Tax by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Mike Sweet, Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Board certification is a mark of excellence and distinguishing accomplishment achieved by fewer than 10% of practicing attorneys in Texas. Our attorneys have also been selected by their peers for inclusion in a number of regional and national publications for achieving a high degree of professional achievement in estate planning and probate law.

Assisting our Estate Planning and Probate Clients with

  • Advance Health Care Directives
  • Asset Protection Planning
  • Durable and Medical Powers of Attorney
  • Estate and Gift Tax Planning
  • Federal Income, Estate and Gift Tax Returns
  • Living Wills
  • Marital Property Agreements
  • Probate and Estate Administration
  • Probate, Estate and Fiduciary Litigation

Trusts and Trust Administration for:

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts
  • Charitable Lead Trusts
  • Generational-Skipping Transfer Tax Trusts
  • Grantor-Retained Annuity Trusts
  • Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
  • Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
  • Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
  • Revocable Living Trusts
  • Wills

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Meet our Estate Planning and Probate Attorneys