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phone: 512-328-8355 Education: Professional Associations and Memberships: Pat's legal career spans over two decades and encompasses a broad range of client needs, from basic wills and trusts to sophisticated tax planning for large estates, as well as guardianship, special needs trusts and probate and guardianship administration. A frequent speaker to both professional and lay groups, she enjoys educating people about the need for comprehensive planning for their estates to prepare them and their families for the unexpected as well as the inevitable. Pat Barnes has served on the boards of directors of the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Travis County Bar Association and the Estate Planning Council of Central Texas. She is a member of the Texas Guardianship Association. She has also advanced the missions of Austin Ballet, American Cancer Society and Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve , through service on those boards, and on the planned giving committees of numerous organizations, including Hospice Austin. Pat has lived in Rollingwood (a residential community near the heart of Austin by Zilker Park) with her husband, Philip, and four children for nearly 20 years. Pat served as Rollingwood's presiding municipal judge for more than four years, which Pat and her teenage daughters found to be a powerful and prestigious position among the traffic-ticket-conscious neighborhood teenagers. .................................................................................................................................................
phone: 512-328-8355 Education: Professional Associations and Memberships: Barbara has over twenty-five years’ experience representing clients in the areas of wills and trusts, estate planning for small, medium and large estates, probate, guardianship and trust law. She represents executors, trustees, heirs and beneficiaries in routine and disputed cases. She started her legal career as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, representing state agencies in federal and state court litigation, appeals and administrative proceedings. She entered private practice in 1983 and currently provides counsel on a wide range of matters including tax planning, trusts, family law and issues facing non-traditional families. Barbara Lipscomb has a multi-county litigation practice, handling contested matters including complex litigation in the areas of will contests and will construction, cases by and against executors and trustees, and contested guardianships. .................................................................................................................................................
phone: 512-328-8355 Education: Professional Associations and Memberships: Ellen’s practice areas are estate planning and both uncontested and contested probate and guardianship matters. She has a depth of litigation experience gained from her work representing clients in commercial lawsuits. Her practice also encompasses all areas of estate administration, representing executors, heirs and beneficiaries, and creditors, in routine estate administrations as well as complex and contested matters. Away from the office, Ellen Stewart works pro bono with Family Eldercare, Volunteer Legal Services and the Travis County Women Lawyers Association on projects involving estate planning, probate and guardianship cases. Her volunteer work also includes serving on the Texas Wellness Conference Planning Committee (2006), special projects for St. Thomas More Catholic Church, and she currently serves as local president of the Greater Austin Alumni Association of Southwestern University. .................................................................................................................................................
phone: 512-328-8355 Education: Professional Associations and Memberships: Christian Best focuses his practice on probate and guardianship matters. He has experience working with both contested and uncontested proceedings. Christian is certified to be appointed an attorney ad litem in guardianship proceedings, and has worked with prospective and established guardians as well as potential wards. .................................................................................................................................................
Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law Texas Rising Star, Texas Super Lawyers – Rising Stars Edition and Texas Monthly 2005, 2007, 2008 & 2009 (Estate Planning and Trusts) phone: 512-328-8355 Education: Professional Associations and Memberships: John R. Ott, of counsel to Barnes Lipscomb & Stewart PLLC, comes to the firm after more than a decade with a large, multi-practice Austin law firm. He represents clients with complex estates and trusts, including those having contested matters. John enjoys working with clients to manage estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues and has much experience utilizing Family Limited Partnerships, trusts, and other business entities to integrate and protect family businesses. His practice includes estate planning, estate administration and contested/litigation matters. John volunteers regularly, representing qualified clients in probate and guardianship cases. He also takes appointments from the Probate Court to serve as attorney ad litem and estate administrator. |
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PATRICIA T. BARNES
BARBARA J. LIPSCOMB,
ELLEN P. STEWART
CHRISTIAN W. BEST
JOHN R. OTTBarnes Lipscomb & Stewart PLLC Email Patricia T. Barnes |
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