Christopher C. Weeg
Top rated Estate Planning & Probate attorney in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun LLP
Practice Areas: Estate Planning & Probate, Tax; view more
Licensed in Florida since: 2015
Education: University of Florida Levin College of Law
Selected to Rising Stars: 2022 - 2023 Call today:
561-626-2101
Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun LLP
3825 PGA BoulevardSuite 701
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 Visit website
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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.
Practice areas
Estate Planning & Probate, Tax: ConsumerFocus areas
Estate Planning, Probate & Estate Administration, Tax Law
- 70% Estate Planning & Probate
- 30% Tax: Consumer
First Admitted: 2015, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://www.comitersinger.com/attorneys/christopher-weeg/
- University of Florida, LL.M. in Taxation
- Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar
- East Coast Estate Planning Council (Director)
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Florida
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Palm Beach County Estate Planning Council
- Palm Beach Tax Institute
- Tax Section of the Florida Bar
- “Highlights from Heckerling 2021,” Palm Beach Estate Planning Council (June 3, 2021)
- “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)
- “How Do You Want Your Eggs: Taxed or Nontaxed?,” 145 Tax Notes 81 (2014)
- “Intervention in the Tax Court and the Appellate Review of Tax Court Procedural Decisions,” 67 Florida Law Review 1483 (2015) (co-author)
- “Deducting False Claims Act Settlements: The Silver Lining to the Whistleblower Cloud,” BNA Daily Tax Report, Issue No. 64 (April 2016)
- “The Private Trust Company: A DIY for the Uber Wealthy,” 52 ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 121 (Spring 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)
- “Choice of Entity and Self-Employment Tax,” Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Headnotes, December 2017
- “A Primer on Cryptocurrency Taxation: What We Know So Far,” Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Headnotes, December 2019
- “My Client Died: Top 10 List of Tax and Legal Questions,” Today’s CPA, November/December 2019
- “Is Estate Planning Still Necessary? The Importance of Estate Planning for Nontaxable Estates,” 2017 Texas Society of CPAs CPE Expo, (December 8, 2017)
- “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)
- “The Effect of the New Tax Act on Small Businesses,” Oak Cliff Business Exchange Conference (August 16, 2018)
- “Estate Planning and Tax Updates,” 2020 Ullman Year in Review, Tax Section of the Florida Bar (July 3, 2020)
- “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)
- Graduate Assistant, Professor Dennis Calfee
- Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy
- Research Assistant, Professor Lee-Ford Tritt
- Class V, Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- Runner Up, 2014 Federal Bar Association Tax Law Writing Competition (published in Inside Basis)
- Winner, 2014 Tax Analysts Student Paper Competition (published in Tax Notes)
- Second Place, 2015 ACTEC Student Writing Competition
- Winner, 2016 Bloomberg Law Write-On Competition (published in BNA Daily Tax Report)
- Book Awards (for highest grade in the following courses), Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers, Advanced Estates & Trusts, and Tax Moot Court
- Managing Editor, Florida Law Review
- Member, Order of the Coif
Office location for Christopher C. Weeg
3825 PGA Boulevard
Suite 701
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone: 561-626-2101
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2022 - 2023
