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About Mr. Weeg
Christopher Weeg is a Board Certified tax lawyer and CPA with a focus on tax and estate planning. His law practice includes drafting wills and trusts; advising on income, gift, estate, and GST tax issues; forming business and nonprofit entities; and probating estates. Chris is experienced in the preparation of gift and estate tax returns, representation of executors in all phases of estate administration, and creating comprehensive estate plans tailored to meet clients’ personal objectives in a tax efficient manner.
As a triple Gator, Chris graduated from the University of Florida with an accounting degree, a J.D., and an LL.M. in taxation. While in law school, Chris was a member of the Law Review and inducted into the Order of the Coif. Chris earned Book Awards for the highest grade in the following courses: Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers, Advanced Estates & Trusts, and Tax Moot Court.
Chris worked at a tax boutique law firm in Dallas before joining Comiter Singer. Prior to law school, he worked as a CPA in the tax department of a public accounting firm in West Palm Beach.
Chris is admitted to practice law in Florida and Texas, and is a licensed CPA in Florida.
HONORS
- Board Certified in Tax Law by the Florida Bar
- Selected as a Rising Star in Estate Planning & Probate by Florida Super Lawyers magazine (2022)
- Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Class V
- Order of the Coif
- Florida Law Review, Managing Editor
- Graduate Assistant, Professor Dennis Calfee
- Research Assistant, Professor Lee-Ford Tritt
- Certificate in Estate Planning from the University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Book Awards (for the highest grade in the following courses): Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers, Advanced Estates & Trusts, and Tax Moot Court
- Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy
- Winner, 2016 Bloomberg Law Write-On Competition (published in BNA Daily Tax Report)
- Second Place, 2015 ACTEC Student Writing Competition
- Winner, 2014 Tax Analysts Student Paper Competition (published in Tax Notes)
- Runner Up, 2014 Federal Bar Association Tax Law Writing Competition (published in Inside Basis)
PRESENTATIONS
- “2024 Heckerling and Florida Update,” East Coast Estate Planning Council and Palm Beach Tax Institute (February 21, 2024)
- “2024 Heckerling and Florida Update,” Tax Section of the Florida Bar (February 21, 2024)
- “Tax Reporting for Grantor Trusts: Utilizing Optional Methods in Treas. Regs 1.671-4(b); SLATs, GRATs, QPRTs, and IDGTs,” Strafford Webinars (February 14, 2024)
- “2024 Heckerling and Florida Update,” Palm Beach Estate Planning Council (February 13, 2024)
- “Mastering GST Elections and Reporting: Minimizing Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Through Indirect Skips,” Strafford Webinars (September 20, 2023)
- “Estate Planning and Tax Updates,” 2023 Ullman Year in Review, Tax Section of the Florida Bar (July 3, 2023)
- “How to Settle a Client’s Estate: Identifying Assets and Debts, Critical Elections, Distributions to Beneficiaries,” Strafford Webinars (May 10, 2023)
- “2023 Estate Planning and Heckerling Update,” Tax Section of the Florida Bar (February 22, 2023)
- “2023 Heckerling and Florida Update,” East Coast Estate Planning Council and Palm Beach Tax Institute (February 22, 2023)
- “Reviewing a Client’s Estate Plan: Asset Disposition Under Wills and Trusts, Naming Fiduciaries, and Proper Asset Titling and Dispositions for CPAs and Other Advisers,” Strafford Webinars (November 30, 2022)
- “Family Partnerships: Navigating the Discounting Rules for Family- Controlled Entities,” Strafford Webinars (November 29, 2022)
- “Trusts as S Corporation Shareholders: Elections, Eligibility, and Avoiding Loss of Subchapter S Status,” Strafford Webinars (August 23, 2022)
- “Estate Planning and Tax Updates,” 2022 Ullman Year in Review, Tax Section of the Florida Bar (July 2, 2022)
- “Florida Estate Planning Meets Community Property: Community Property Trusts, Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act, and More,” Tax Section of the Florida Bar Annual Meeting CLE (May 20, 2022)
- “Estate Planning and Tax Update,” Estate Planning Council of Greater Miami 10th Annual Estate Planning Symposium (February 8, 2022)
- “Trusts as S Corporation Shareholders: Elections, Eligibility, and Avoiding Loss of Subchapter S Status,” Strafford Webinars (September 28, 2021)
- “Highlights from Heckerling 2021,” Palm Beach Estate Planning Council (June 3, 2021)
- “Estate Planning and Tax Updates,” 2020 Ullman Year in Review, Tax Section of the Florida Bar (July 3, 2020)
- “The Effect of the New Tax Act on Small Businesses,” Oak Cliff Business Exchange Conference (August 16, 2018)
- “New Tax Act: Important Topics,” 17th Annual Course Advanced In-House Counsel, Business Law and Corporate Counsel Sections of the State Bar of Texas (August 10, 2018)
- “Is Estate Planning Still Necessary? The Importance of Estate Planning for Nontaxable Estates,” 2017 Texas Society of CPAs CPE Expo, (December 8, 2017)
PUBLICATIONS
- “Change of Domicile Traps,” Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach County Estate Planning Council’s 2024 Annual Estate Planning Supplement (January 7, 2024)
- “Impact of New Florida Legislation on Estate Tax Planning,” Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach County Estate Planning Council’s 2023 Annual Estate Planning Supplement (January 8, 2023)
- “My Client Died: Top 10 List of Tax and Legal Questions,” Today’s CPA, November/December 2019
- “A Primer on Cryptocurrency Taxation: What We Know So Far,” Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Headnotes, December 2019
- “Choice of Entity and Self-Employment Tax,” Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Headnotes, December 2017
- “Community and Separate Property Regimes: Educating the Mobile Client and the Multijurisdictional Attorney,” State-to-State Newsletter published by The Florida Bar Out-of-State Division (Summer 2017)
- “The Private Trust Company: A DIY for the Uber Wealthy,” 52 ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 121 (Spring 2017)
- “Deducting False Claims Act Settlements: The Silver Lining to the Whistleblower Cloud,” BNA Daily Tax Report, Issue No. 64 (April 2016)
- “Intervention in the Tax Court and the Appellate Review of Tax Court Procedural Decisions,” 67 Florida Law Review 1483 (2015) (co-author)
- “How Do You Want Your Eggs: Taxed or Nontaxed?,” 145 Tax Notes 81 (2014)
- “Starting with the [Tax] Man in the Mirror: Asking the IRS to Change Its Ways of Valuing Postmortem Publicity Rights,” Inside Basis (Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation Summer 2014)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- State Bar of Florida
- Tax Certification Committee, Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization & Education (2023-2024)
- State Bar of Texas
- The East Coast Estate Planning Council
- Board of Directors (2022-2024)
- Tax Section of The Florida Bar
- Director, Marketing & Membership Committee (2023-2024)
- Palm Beach County Bar Association
- Co-Chair and Moderator, Probate and Guardianship Session, 2024 Bench Bar Conference
- Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar
- Palm Beach Tax Institute
- Palm Beach County Estate Planning Council
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
