Ruffin Craig works with his clients and their advisors to help identify and achieve their estate planning goals by considering the interplay between income, gift, estate and inheritance taxes (including generation-skipping transfer tax), as well as asset protection issues. The vehicles commonly used as part of his estate planning practice include:

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• Wills

• Revocable and irrevocable trusts 

• Durable powers of attorney for financial affairs and health care

• Living wills

• Asset protection trusts

• Premarital agreements

• Insurance planning

• Charitable remainder trusts

• Lifetime gifting arrangements

After a death, Ruffin also can assist in estate and trust administration and planning. 

 

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Representing Fiduciaries & Beneficiaries

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Ruffin routinely represents estates and executors, trusts and trustees, and beneficiaries of trusts and estates. 

 

Business Planning & Succession

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Ruffin’s representation of businesses focuses on small businesses, ranging from family limited partnerships to manufacturing concerns. He regularly assists businesses in most all areas of business law, including but not limited to, organization, maintenance, reorganization, redemptions, and liquidation of business entities, including corporations, LLCs, and partnerships. He also assists business owners with buy-sell agreements, real estate transfers, mortgages, leases, and employee benefit planning, including deferred compensation, non-compete and employment agreements, and insurance planning.