Estates, businesses, land, and the people who depend on them. For sixty years, families and family companies have brought Whitmore & Vance their most consequential decisions — and their next generation.
Wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, and estate plans built around what your family actually needs — not a binder of boilerplate.
Formation, governance, contracts, and the quiet counsel that keeps closely held companies out of court.
Purchases, sales, easements, title disputes, and farm and timberland transactions handled with care and clean paper.
Steady guidance for executors and families through probate, from first filing to final distribution.
Moving a business or a farm to the next generation without breaking the business — or the family.
When a matter must be tried, it is tried by the partner you hired — prepared, measured, and known to the court.
You will hear our honest judgment of your position — including when the wisest course is not to pay us to fight.
The attorney you meet is the attorney who does the work. Matters are declined before they are ever handed down.
We plan estates we will someday administer and draft agreements we may someday defend. We write accordingly.
Estates, trusts, and succession. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. With the firm since 1994.
Business, commercial, and real property. Counsel to closely held companies for twenty-six years. Grandson of a founder.
Probate, administration, and civil litigation. Former law clerk to the state court of appeals. With the firm since 2009.
“They have buried three of our patriarchs, papered two successions, and told us no more times than any firm we pay. That is why we stay.”Family client since 1998
Consultations are scheduled, unhurried, and confidential. Bring your documents and your questions; leave with an honest assessment and a clear next step.
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