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Legal strategies for business owners, professionals, and families to secure their assets, minimize tax burdens, and ensure financial protection.
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Clear Guidance for Complex Legal Matters
If you’ve built a family business, managed significant assets, or planned for the future of your estate—you know how complex the legal side can get.
This site exists to make that complexity understandable.
Written by Ridge Dickey, a longtime attorney and former CPA, these articles are designed to help you protect what matters most: your business, your wealth, and your legacy.
Estate Planning Basics
Learn the purpose of each essential estate planning document—what it does, when to use it, and how it fits into your overall plan. These pages provide plain-English explanations of Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, and other tools to help you protect your health, your finances, and your loved ones.
Legal Insights for Protecting What You’ve Built
Explore trusted guidance on estate planning, closely-held business law, asset protection, and more. These articles are written to help business owners, professionals, and families make informed decisions about their future—without the legal jargon.
Understanding the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax: A 40-Year Legal and Policy Review
Revocable Living Trusts and Wills
Dynasty Trusts
Directed Trust Advisors and Protectors
ILIT vs. Money Accumulation
Example Buy-Sell Agreements (Texas)
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