Christopher C. Weeg
Chris is an attorney and a CPA with a focus on tax and estate planning. His law practice includes drafting wills and trusts; advising on income, gift, estate, and GST tax issues; forming business and nonprofit entities; and probating estates. Chris is experienced in the preparation of gift and estate tax returns, representation of executors in probate administration and the settlement of estates, and the creation of limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as public charities and private foundations.
Through the implementation of a series of documents, Chris accomplishes his clients’ objectives in the disposition of their estates, all the while maximizing the credits and exemptions from federal estate and gift taxes.
Chris’ business planning practice includes counseling clients with respect to the establishment, reorganization, operation and tax reporting requirements of their business and related transactions. A primary emphasis of business planning is placed on the transfer of business interests to family members in the most tax efficient manner thereby providing the second (or third) generation with the best chance of family business continuance.
Prior to law school, Chris worked in the tax department of a public accounting firm in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Chris was admitted to practice in Texas in 2016 and in Florida in 2015.
Chris’ business planning practice includes counseling clients with respect to the establishment, reorganization, operation and tax reporting requirements of their business and related transactions. A primary emphasis of business planning is placed on the transfer of business interests to family members in the most tax efficient manner thereby providing the second (or third) generation with the best chance of family business continuance.
Prior to law school, Chris worked in the tax department of a public accounting firm in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Chris was admitted to practice in Texas in 2016 and in Florida in 2015.
Education
- LL.M. in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law Graduate Tax Program, 2016
- Graduate Assistant, Professor Dennis Calfee
- Winner of the Bloomberg Law Write-On Competition (published in BNA Daily Tax Report)
- J.D., Estate Planning Certificate, cum laude, University of Florida Levin College of Law, 2015
- Order of the Coif
- Florida Law Review, Managing Editor
- Research Assistant, Professor Lee-Ford Tritt
- Florida Tax Moot Court, President
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, President
- Book Awards: Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers, Advanced Estates & Trusts, Tax Moot Court
- Winner of the Tax Analysts Student Paper Competition (published in Tax Notes)
- Second Place, ACTEC Student Writing Competition
- Runner Up, Federal Bar Association Tax Law Writing Competition (published in Inside Basis)
- Order of the Coif
- M.S., Taxation, Florida Atlantic University, 2010
- B.S., Accounting, University of Florida, 2009
Publications
- "Choice of Entity and Self-Employment Tax," Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, December 2017, Volume 42, Number 12.
- "Community and Separate Property Regimes: Educating the Mobile Client and the Multijurisdictional Attorney," State-to-State Newsletter published by The Florida Bar Out-of-State Division (Summer 2017).
- "The Private Trust Company: A DIY for the Uber Wealthy," 52 ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 121 (Spring 2017).
- "Deducting False Claims Act Settlements: The Silver Lining to the Whistleblower Cloud," BNA Daily Tax Report, Issue No. 64 (April 2016).
- "Intervention in the Tax Court and the Appellate Review of Tax Court Procedural Decisions," 67 Florida Law Review 1483 (2015) (co-author).
- "How Do You Want Your Eggs: Taxed or Nontaxed?," 145 Tax Notes 81 (2014).
- "Starting with the [Tax] Man in the Mirror: Asking the IRS to Change Its Ways of Valuing Postmortem Publicity Rights," Inside Basis (Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation Summer 2014.
- 2017 TSCPA CPE Expo, "Is Estate Planning Still Necessary? The Importance of Estate Planning for Nontaxable Estates," Houston, TX- 12/8/17
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Florida
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section
- Taxation Section
- Texas Bar Association
- Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law
- Tax Section
- Dallas Bar Association
- Probate, Trusts & Estates Section
- Tax Section
- Florida Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate Law
- Tax Section
- Young Lawyers
- Out-of-State Division
- Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
