Pick your track
Two tracks.
Four bundles.
A foundational estate plan, or a property-focused plan built around the Transfer on Death Deed — depending on whether the bigger question is who inherits or how the house passes.
TexasEstates is for clean, common situations. For Trusts, blended families, business succession, professionals, tax-driven structures and contested matters, our advisory practice — Continuum Counsel — takes the matter directly.
The estate plan every Texan adult should have.
Pick by household: single or without kids → Essentials. Married or partnered with minor children → Family Protection.
Keep your biggest asset out of probate.
The only bundles that include a Transfer on Death Deed — Texas's statutory probate-avoidance tool for real property (Tex. Est. Code Ch. 114).
Tax-literate estate law from one attorney — not two people who blame each other.
Darryl V. Pratt is a dual-credentialed Texas attorney and licensed CPA. Most high-income Texans default to a generic estate attorney plus their existing CPA — and then discover mid-file that the two don't speak each other's language. Continuum Counsel eliminates that seam.
- §QSBS & §1202 — qualified small business stock exclusion planning with trust ownership structures (NGTs, stacking, gifting).
- §S-corp election decisions — when a trust can hold S-corp stock, electing small business trust (ESBT) vs. qualified subchapter S trust (QSST) modeling.
- §Professional practice succession — PLLC / PA buy-sell funded by life-insurance LLCs, goodwill allocation on death, state-board compliance.
- §Multi-state domicile — Texas homestead exemption vs. Florida / California residency, community-property optimization, pour-over vs. revocable trust.
- §Lifetime gifting & GRATs — annual exclusion stacking, intra-family loans, GRAT term modeling, tax basis preservation on inherited assets.
Continuum Counsel
When the form stops fitting,
we have a conversation.
TexasEstates is for clean, common situations. For Trusts, blended families, business succession, professionals, tax-driven structures and contested matters, our advisory practice — Continuum Counsel — takes the matter directly.