Legal Coverage For What Counts.
Experienced legal assistance to protect your present and future.
Who We Are.
Robert & Ginna Gardner, Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama
The attorneys of Gardner Law have extensive experience in the preparation of wills, trusts, and estates, including powers of attorney, health care directives, and prenuptial agreements, as well as guardianships and conservatorships. We advise clients on the most sophisticated and comprehensive estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax planning opportunities available under current law.
Our corporate practice focuses on business entity formation and business succession planning for family-owned businesses, including the preparation of buy-sell agreements, the use of gifts and sales to transfer assets to future generations, and working with small businesses to plan appropriate entity structure.
We integrate personal and business planning to achieve our client’s goals, including tax minimization, asset protection, and family wealth preservation. With decades of experience, we guide the proper administration of trusts, probate and non-probate administration of estates, and trust and estate conflict resolution.
Practice Areas
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Providing sophisticated will and trust drafting, wealth transfer and preservation techniques, charitable planning, and special needs planning utilizing our extensive experience, including one partner’s Master of Laws in Taxation and Master of Laws in Estate Planning.
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Business Law
Helping clients focus on business entity structure and formation, and business succession planning for family-owned businesses, including preparation of buy-sell agreements, and the use of gifting and sales to transfer assets to future generations.
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Tax Law
Assisting companies with entity selection, business planning, organization, structuring, transition and succession planning, corporate mergers and acquisitions of closely-held companies, matters regarding Subchapter S corporation status, and tax filing and reporting requirements.
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Probate
Assisting both individual and corporate fiduciaries with all aspects of estate and trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, accountings, trust modifications and terminations, and asset transfers. Also representing the interests of beneficiaries of trusts and estates.