Stephen Brown Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I regularly advise individuals on a range of estate planning strategies, including the use of simple and complex trust arrangements to achieve their personal and charitable objectives in a tax advantaged manner. I also have extensive experience advising clients regarding estate, trust and guardianship matters, including will disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, marital rights in estate and trusts, irrevocable trust modification, asset protection, and incompetency proceedings.I advise… Show more I regularly advise individuals on a range of estate planning strategies, including the use of simple and complex trust arrangements to achieve their personal and charitable objectives in a tax advantaged manner. I also have extensive experience advising clients regarding estate, trust and guardianship matters, including will disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, marital rights in estate and trusts, irrevocable trust modification, asset protection, and incompetency proceedings.I advise closely held businesses on a range of issues, including governance, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, employment agreements and federal and state tax disputes. Show less

As an associate attorney, I assisted clients with estate planning and trust administration, fiduciary litigation and corporate tax planning. I advised clients on a wide range of estate planning strategies to shelter transfers from estate, generation-skipping, income and gift taxes. I regularly counseled clients with respect to complex wealth and tax issues. I assisted clients with wills, simple and complex trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and other planning techniques. I also… Show more As an associate attorney, I assisted clients with estate planning and trust administration, fiduciary litigation and corporate tax planning. I advised clients on a wide range of estate planning strategies to shelter transfers from estate, generation-skipping, income and gift taxes. I regularly counseled clients with respect to complex wealth and tax issues. I assisted clients with wills, simple and complex trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and other planning techniques. I also counseled clients on estate and trust administration matters and represented my clients in a number of court proceedings. Show less

Raleigh

After graduating law school, I joined the firm of Howard, Stallings, From, Hutson, Atkins, Angell & Davis P.A. where I assisted clients with business and corporate law, civil litigation, and estate planning.