ROANOKE VALLEY ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

In the current environment of increasing litigation and claims, many clients seek advice on different means of protecting their assets.  This session will examine the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques of asset protection from the simpler such as gifts, the titling of property, and the use of trusts for third party beneficiaries to the more complex such as the use of limited partnerships and limited liability companies, offshore trusts, and domestic asset protection trusts.

Charles D. "Skip" Fox, IV, is a partner in the Charlottesville office of the law firm of McGuire Woods, LLP, and head of its Private Wealth Services Industry Group.  Prior to joining McGuire Woods in 2005, Skip practiced for twenty-five years with Schiff Hardin LLP in Chicago.  Skip concentrates his practice in estate planning, estate administration, trust law, charitable organizations, and family business succession.  He teaches at the American Bankers Association National Trust School and National Graduate Trust School where he has been on the faculty for over twenty-five years.  Skip was an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught from 1983 to 2005, and is currently an Adjunct at the University of Virginia Law School.

In 2008, Skip was elected to the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame.  He is also Chair Emeritus of the Duke University Estate Planning Council and a member of the Princeton University Planned Giving Advisory Council.  Skip has provided advice and counsel to major charitable organizations and serves or has served on the boards of several charities, including the Episcopal High School (from which he received its Distinguished Service Award in 2001), and the University of Virginia Law School Foundation.  He received his A.B. from Princeton, his M.A. from Yale, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia.  Skip is married to Beth, a retired trust officer, and has two sons, Quent and Elm