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FIRM OVERVIEW
Attorney and President: Charles E. Hamilton
Areas of Practice: Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Estate Administration,
Guardianships, Contested Trusts and Estates
Admitted to Practice: Supreme Court of Texas, 1969; U. S. Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit, 1974; U. S. Supreme Court, 1975
Education:
Professional Activities have Included:
- Cameron County Bar Association (Member 1969-; Director, 1975-1978; 1980-1981;
President, 1985-1986)
- State Bar of Texas (Member: District Grievance Committee, 1981-1985, Secretary;
Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section)
- Rio Grande Valley Estate Planning Council, Inc., Member, Director
- Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
Substantive Publications and Presentations: Author/Speaker for the following
substantive papers and presentations, as well as numerous talks to lay groups:
- Dealing With the Contested or Nonperforming Administration: Handling the Hot
Administration Without Burning Yourself, Continuing Judicial Education Seminar,
Annual Conference of South Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association, 1988, South
Padre Island, Texas
- The Contested or Nonperforming Administration: Handling the Hot Administration
Without Burning Yourself, Continuing Judicial Education Semionar, Annual State Conference
of County Judges ande Commissioners Association, 1989, College Station, Texas [Read it]
- A Practical Approach to Trusts, A. G. Edwards Estate Planning Seminar,
1990, Brownsville, Texas
- A Practical Approach to Trusts in Financial Planning, The University of Texas --
Pan American Estate Planning Seminar, 1991, Brownsville, Texas
- Administration of the Estate in Texas, chapters on Collecting the Assets,
Inventory, Claims Against the Estate, and Closing the Estate, CLE seminar, National Business
Institute, Inc., 1991, Brownsville, Texas
- Dealing With the Contested or Nonperforming Administration: Handling the Hot
Administration Without Burning Yourself, Continuing Judicial Education Seminar,
Annual Conference of South Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association, 1993, South
Padre Island, Texas [Read it]
- Applications of the Limited Liability Company in Estate Administration, 4th
Annual Advanced Drafting: Estate Planning and Probate Seminar, State Bar of Texas, 1993,
Houston, Texas [Read it]
- Estate Planning Series 1995, sessions on Planning Against a Disabling Illness
or Injury, Wills & Probate, Trusts Activated Post-Mortem, and Selecting the Fiduciaries,
The University of Texas at Brownsville, 1995, Brownsville, Texas
- A Toolbox for Leaders, course materials and seminar, presented to Junior
Leadership Brownsville class, 1996, Brownsville, Texas
- Common Estates and Common Problems: an Overview of Probate Procedures,
seminar and paper presented to judges-elect of Cameron County Courts at Law, 1998,
Brownsville, Texas [Read it]
- Estate Planning Series 1999, sessions on Planning Against Disability,
and Wills & Probate, The University of Texas at Browsnville/Texas Southmost College,
1999, Brownsville, Texas [Read it]
- A Toolbox for Leaders, course materials and seminar, University of Texas at
Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, 1999, Brownsville, Texas
- Handling the Hot Estate Without Burning Yourself: Common Estates and Common
Problems, Texas Association of Legal Secretaries Winter Board Meeting continuing
legal education, 2000, South Padre Island, Texas
Community Activities Have Included:
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