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Tax and estate planning attorney working out of Charlotte, NC.

Jim Hickmon is certified by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a Board Certified Legal Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law and is a Certified Financial Planner®. In addition to Super Lawyers, he is recognized through peer review by Martindale Hubbell as an AV Preeminent Peer Rated Lawyer and at Business North Carolina Legal Elite. He serves as an adjunct professor of law at Wake Forest University teaching Wealth Transfer and Fiduciary Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates to upper-level law students. Jim is admitted to practice before the State Bars of North Carolina and Virginia.Jim is passionate about protecting family and closely held business owners through succession planning that protects family assets after the owner’s death keeping family businesses within families. He has counseled families with businesses across a spectrum of industries, from farming to real estate development and trucking to software engineering. He is the author of numerous articles surrounding this subject focusing on wealth transfer, tax, probate, and fiduciary responsibility. Jim’s work is published in both regional and national publications, including the Bureau of National Affairs’ Tax Management and Compensation Planning Journal. He is a contributing author to the North Carolina Bar Association’s Estate Administration Manual and Fiduciary Litigation holds an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, an MBA from East Carolina University and his law degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law.. Jim has involved himself in a number of charitable and community service organizations at the local, state, and national levels.  He was selected by his fellow members of the Bar as a member of Business North Carolina magazine’s Legal Elite in the field of Tax and Estate Planning Law for 2010 and 2012. He is a member of the Charlotte chapter of the Financial Planning Association and the Charlotte Estate Planning Council.

I am an attorney and CPA that enjoys helping people and businesses solve their complex (and routine) business law, real estate, and tax issues. I have many years of successful experience helping clients in these areas of law.

I am an advisor, a confidant, and a problem solver. I work with businesses and nonprofits, their owners and stakeholders, their senior management, officers, and directors, and other individuals to help them make the best decisions possible, to insure they satisfy their needs and exceed their goals, and to help overcome complications that arise along the way. As an AV rated lawyer, I help my clients in two ways. First, I represent companies, their owners, other individuals, and tax-exempt organizations in IRS tax controversies, helping them successfully maneuver their way through audits, appeals, refund claims, penalty abatement requests, collection matters, and other administrative matters. When necessary, I also appear in litigation against the IRS and the Department of Justice in the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. District Courts, and Federal Courts of Appeals.Second, I advise charities, private foundations, and other tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations on a variety of governance and tax matters. I provide advice to clients on issues such as entity formation, obtaining and maintaining tax exemptions, corporate governance, reclassifications, private inurement, intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income tax, tax reporting, tax disclosures, self-dealing, income distributions, investment restrictions, expenditure limitations, and other related tax and governance matters. I work with senior management, officers, and boards to make sure that the law helps them accomplish their missions and does not prevent them from doing so.Moreover, I work with over forty other talented lawyers and staff at Forrest Firm, P.C., a full service law firm that assists companies and individuals with a full menu of corporate, business, tax, litigation, and real estate needs. Together, our law firm can and will work with you to insure that your hopes and dreams become your reality.

I am a founding partner of the law firm of Hull & Chandler, P.A. Our firm handles a variety of legal issues for small businesses and individuals. My practice is focused primarily on business litigation and transactions while my firm has attorneys focusing on personal injury, estate planning, construction law, imigration and other areas of the law. We strive to offer high level personal service to our clients and will refer matters to highly qualified attorneys when our clients have legal matters that fall outside of our areas of focus.

A Charlotte native with international experience, and tax lawyer that is also a CPA-  I help taxpayers like you with federal tax controversies and disputes, federal tax litigation matters, and IRS criminal investigation defense.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.

Experienced Tax attorney serving clients in Charlotte and surrounding areas.