Christopher Carns Email & Phone Number

Chris currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of and General Counsel to The Cabana Group and as head of Estate and Business Succession Planning at Prevost, Shaff, Mason & Carns, PLLC. Chris is licensed to practice law in Texas and Arkansas, holds a Series 65 financial advising license, and he heads up the estate planning, legal services and "family office" arms of Cabana as well as serving as COO.Chris focuses his boutique legal practice in four areas: corporate transactions, real estate transactions, estate and gift tax planning, and probate. Clients ranging from individuals to entire multi-generational families turn to Chris for counsel in structuring their business/investment ventures, as well as their estates, in order to ensure that their assets will be properly protected, and ultimately transferred to future generations in the most tax efficient manner. Chris graduated cum laude from the SMU Dedman School of Law, where he was a member of the Dean’s honor roll and Chief Counsel of the Child Advocacy Clinic. Prior to law school, Chris received his B.B.A. in Management and Operations, with a minor in Finance, from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a member of the Gamma Beta Phi Honors Society, the Brass Ring Honors Consulting Program, and an intern for the Texas House of Representatives 78th Legislature. *Disclosures can be found attached below.

Listed skills include Estate Planning, Corporate Law, Asset Protection, Family Law, and 17 others.