High Net Worth Guide 2026 : Georgia
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Provided by Duncan Spratt P.A.
Duncan Spratt helps individuals, families, business owners, and family offices protect, grow, and transfer wealth through strategic estate planning and private wealth law services. Our attorneys advise high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients on trusts, wills, wealth transfer strategies, asset protection, business succession planning, estate and trust administration, probate, charitable giving, and estate and gift tax planning. We work with entrepreneurs, executives, physicians, real estate investors, and owners of closely held and family-owned businesses to create customized plans that preserve wealth, minimize taxes, and ensure a smooth transition of assets across generations. Whether establishing trusts, planning for the sale or succession of a business, administering a loved one's estate, or navigating complex fiduciary responsibilities, our team delivers practical, personalized legal solutions tailored to each client's goals. We also represent trustees, executors, beneficiaries, and family members in trust and estate administration, probate matters, fiduciary counseling, and IRS estate and gift tax controversies. By combining sophisticated tax planning with decades of experience in trusts and estates, Duncan Spratt provides comprehensive private wealth counsel that helps clients safeguard their legacy, protect family assets, and plan confidently for the future.
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Duncan Spratt is a boutique trusts and estates practice in Atlanta. It handles estate, family business and charitable planning matters, as well as probate, trust and estate administration, and tax controversy work.
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Duncan Spratt have great knowledge about estate tax planning and the ability to professionally respond to clients in a timely manner. They offer clear explanations of applicable law and various complex strategies available to help clients preserve wealth.
Duncan Spratt have many years of experience and an incredible depth of knowledge in dealing with complex trust and estate issues. They practise at the highest level and their work is exceptional.
Duncan Spratt's attorneys are incredibly knowledgeable and practical. Their level of expertise about the law and our business makes them critical to our team, and we consult them on all matters.
At Duncan Spratt, they have a great depth of knowledge of the subject matter involved. Their drafting ability with complicated matters is superb.
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James has over 40 years of experience in this practice area. He is poised, professional, and confident in the advice that he provides.
James Spratt is brought into the most complex issues, and he is always incredibly professional, knowledgeable and responsive.
James Spratt is widely recognised as one of the most sophisticated trust and estate counsel in the country, but he is also a warm and understanding counsellor to his clients.
James is one of the deans in the Atlanta community when it comes to estate planning. He has some of the wealthiest clients in town, and his reputation is superb. He gets things done. He thinks through any kind of complex situation.
Cythnia Duncan has exceptional technical skills and is very attentive to detail.
Cynthia Duncan works with some of the wealthiest clients in Georgia and their private family offices.
Cynthia Duncan is our primary contact. She is incredibly responsive, professional and knowledgeable. She is a critical resource for us.
Patricia Thompson is well regarded for trusts, estates and succession planning work. She also advises on complex wealth structuring techniques.
Patricia Thompson is excellent and is a real professional: she 'gets' client service.
Elizabeth Faist advises wealthy clients on business succession planning matters, as well as on trusts, estates and charitable giving plans. She also assists with estate administration.
Elizabeth Faist currently chairs the Georgia state-wide Bar section for trusts and estates lawyers. She represents some of the largest family offices in the state.
The client was very pleased with the work Elizabeth did, and she delivered it in a timely fashion.
Patricia Friedman has expertise across a range of wealth transfer matters and also advises high net worth clients on estate, succession and charitable planning.
Patricia Friedman has a broad range of clients who rely on her for straightforward advice and quick turnaround times on their matters.
Patricia is a very good, thoughtful and pragmatic lawyer. She tries to find solutions under difficult circumstances.
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