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Griffin Law Firm, PLLC is located in Houston, Texas. Our practice focuses on business planning, estate planning, probate, real estate law, and tax planning.

Your business is our business. At Griffin Law Firm, PLLC, we can help you with business planning from cradle to grave. This includes starting or buying a business; capitalizing your business; optimizing your business with tax, corporate and asset protection planning; strategizing business succession; and growing and selling your business.

 

  • Entity Formation
  • Structuring Complex Entity Capital Structures
  • Business Mergers, Acquisitions, & Sales
  • Charity (and Other Non-Profits) Formation

Estate planning and business planning often go hand-in-hand—especially for the entrepreneur. Our firm has assisted many high net worth clients in building and protecting their wealth, developing estate plans that ensure a smooth succession process, and minimizing tax liability. Our firm is comfortable dealing with matters from drafting simple wills with testamentary minors’ trusts to structuring dynastic trusts exempt from the generation-skipping transfer tax.

 

  • Wills
  • Trust Creation & Administration
  • Beneficiary Defective Inheritor’s Trusts (BDIT)
  • Traditional Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts (IDGT)
  • Life Insurance Planning
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Asset Preservation Planning
  • Elder Law/Medicaid Planning
  • Probate Administration
  • Estate Planning Malpractice Advisory

The firm’s founding attorney began his career in the real estate business prior to his practice of law. We have assisted many of our clients with their real estate portfolios from ensuring they are buying what they think they are to litigating excessive property tax appraisals.

 

  • Buyer & Seller Representation & Advisory
  • Commercial Tenant Representation
  • Commercial Property Tax Valuation Protest Appeals Litigation
  • Structuring & Managing Section 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges
  • Title Commitment Analysis & Title Objection Opinion Letters

Tax planning should always be a key component of any business decision. When it comes to taxes, a considerable education and experience are needed to be well-informed of the continuous changes in tax law. Griffin Law Firm, PLLC is knowledgeable in federal & state income taxes, gift taxes, estate/inheritance taxes.

 

  • Federal & State Income Tax Optimization for Businesses
  • Estate, Gift & Inheritance Taxes
  • Estate Tax Return & Gift Tax Return Preparation