Michael H Wald
Dallas Employment, Real Estate, Divorce Attorney, Trademark, Business, Mineral Right, Oil & Will Attorney Dallas
* Appellate
* Business Enterprises and Securities
* Commercial Finance, Lending and Banking
* Divorce and Family Law
* Elder Law
* Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
* Estate Planning
* Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith
* Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment
* Labor and Employment
* Litigation
* Mergers and Acquisitions
* Oil, Gas and Natural Resources
* Probate and Guardianship
* Professional Practices
* Real Estate
* Taxation and Tax Litigation
Underwood, Perkins & Ralston’s Estate Planning section assists families and business owners in creating and preserving wealth, in part to pass that wealth on to future generations. In helping our clients achieve these goals, our attorneys advise them on estate and tax planning, including the areas of wealth preservation, multi-generational tax and estate planning, asset protection, business succession planning, charitable and related legal matters. In the estate planning process, our attorneys work closely with outside accounting, investment, insurance and financial planning professionals.
To accomplish each client’s estate planning goals, an attorney needs to listen closely to the desires of the client. Accordingly, our attorneys plan to spend sufficient time in preliminary meetings to fully understand the client’s objectives so that we can structure the estate and asset protection plan to meet those objectives. Our knowledgeable estate planning attorneys have a wide variety of experience and ability to employ basic and sophisticated estate planning techniques such as:
* Basic Estate Planning Documents,
- Wills and Revocable Living Trust
- Financial and Health Care Powers of Attorney
- Physicians Directives (Living Wills)
* Asset Protection Vehicles,
- Family Limited Partnerships
- Family Limited Liability Companies
- Pre-Marital Agreements
- Partition and Community Property Agreements
- Buy-Sell Agreements
* Trust Vehicles, and
- Generation Skipping Tax Trusts
- Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
- Dynasty Trusts
- Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
- Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts
- Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
* Charitable Planning Vehicles
- Private Charitable Foundations
- Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Charitable Lead Trusts
Underwood, Perkins and Ralston's Probate and Guardianship section handles all aspects of the probate of estates and assists executors, administrators and trustees in estate and trust administration. Attorneys of the Probate section are frequently appointed by the court to act as administrators and guardians. Underwood, Perkins & Ralston has an active probate litigation practice, litigating contested beneficiary and heirship rights, assisting creditors in claims against estates, establishing guardianships for minors and adults and assisting in mental illness determinations. Our firm provides consultations in all aspects of elder law, including planning for nursing home admission, durable powers of attorney, durable powers of attorney for health care and living wills.
Accredited Estate Planner - National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
Michael H Wald
Underwood Perkins & Ralston PC
5420 LBJ Fwy #1900
Dallas TX 75240
Tel: 972 690-9700
Fax: 972 788-3368
E-mail: mwald@uprlaw.com
Areas of Practice: Elder Law; Estate Planning; Probate and Guardianship; Business Enterprises and Securities; Real Estate
Senior Counsel practicing in estate planning; probate; guardianship; elder law; mediation, business formation and strategic planning.
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