Stephen A. Brown
Young Moore and Henderson, P.A.
Recognized since 2019
Raleigh, North Carolina
Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Trusts and Estates
Stephen Brown focuses his practice on business formation and structuring, wealth transfer planning, and litigation involving fiduciaries, trusts, estates and guardianships. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law.
Stephen regularly advises individuals on a range of estate planning strategies, including the use of simple and complex trust arrangements to achieve their personal and charitable objectives in a tax advantaged manner. He also has extensive experience advising clients regarding estate, trust and guardianship matters, including will disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, marital rights in estate and trusts, irrevocable trust modification, asset protection, and incompetency proceedings.
Stephen also advises closely held businesses on a range of issues, including governance, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, employment agreements and federal and state tax disputes.
Stephen graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law where he served as a staff member and published author of the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. He joined Young Moore and Henderson in 2011 after practicing with other area firms and was named a shareholder in 2014.
- E-mail: stephen.brown@youngmoorelaw.com
- Direct Phone Number: 919-861-5508
- Phone Number: 919-872-6860
- Lawyer Page: https://www.youngmoorelaw.com/people/attorneys/stephen-brown/
- 3101 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 200
P.O. Box 31627
Raleigh, NC 27622-1627
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., graduated 2008
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, B.A., graduated 2005
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, B.M., graduated 2005
- North Carolina, 2008
- North Carolina Bar Association Tax, Estate Planning and Probate law Section - Member
- Wake County Bar Association - Member
- United States Tax Court
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- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
- Named in Business North Carolina Legal Elite in the area of Tax/Estate Planning (2019)
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© in Trusts and Estates (2019, 2020)
- Recipient of the J. Nelson Young Tax Scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of Law
- Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers® 2018 as a “Rising Star,” a category for attorneys age 40 and younger
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Tax Law
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