Turner Law, P.C.

Law Firm Overview

Attorney Robert E. Turner practices law in Atlanta Metro area and throughout the state of Georgia where he primarily focuses his practice on:

• Elder Law
• Estate Planning
• Wills, Trusts, and Probate law
• Probate, Trust, and Estate Litigation
• Buiness Planning
• Tax Law and Tax Controversies

Robert Turner is an Elder Law Attorney from Atlanta, Georgia. Attorney Turner began his legal career by clerking for Chief Justice "Bo" Torbert of the Alabama Supreme Court, where he wrote the opinions of the Chief Justice.

An MBA graduate of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Turner decided after his one-year clerkship with the Alabama Supreme Court to continue his education at the University of Florida graduate tax program, where he received his Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.)

After graduating from the University of Florida College of Law graduate tax program, Attorney Turner worked with the international accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) as a Tax Specialist working on estate planning and business tax matters. He was hired away from Coopers and Lybrand by AmSouth Bank (now Regions Bank) to work as Estate Planning Counsel and Trust Officer. At AmSouth he was working with the Bank's customer's attorneys drafting Wills, Trusts and other Estate Planning documents.

While Turner was the estate planning counsel at AmSouth Bank, Turner drafted and developed simple and complex estate plans, from simple wills to estate plans involving complex estate planning techniques for high net-worth clients.

Attorney Turner left AmSouth Bank to do more complex planning in the Atlanta. While in Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia area, he taught at John Marshal Law School as an adjunct professor in probate, trusts, and estates, and was a partner in the law firm of Chandler and Turner. Also, during this time, he successfully appealed the case of Chandler v. Miller from the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, winning the case for his client on an eight-to-one vote by the U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Turner formed his own law firm, Turner Law, P.C. Turner Law handles estate planning, elder law, probate, probate and estate litigation, tax law, and tax controversies throughout the state of Georgia. Robert Turner is an Elderlaw Attonrey in Atlanta Geogia. Turner works with clients throughout the nation with probate issues in Georgia . Primarily, Attorney Robert Turner's cases are in Decatur, Atlanta, Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Cumming and the metro Atlanta Area, including DeKalb County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Cobb County and Rockdale County Georgia. Attorney Turner represents clients involving disputes with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Georgia Department of Revenue.

Areas of Practice

• Elder Law and Medicaid
• Probate of Estates
• Adult Guardianship / Guardian and Guardianship Disputes and Litigation
• Estate Disputes and Litigation
• Asset Protection and Medicaid
• Estate Planning and Asset Planning for Physicians
• VA Planning Aid and Attendance
• Special Needs Planning Special Needs Trust
• Estate Planning for Everyone: Simple to Complex
• Charitable Planning for Estates (e.g., GRITS GRATS GRUTS)

Honors and Awards

• Georgia Civil Liberties Award, 1997

Published Works

• "Alabama Real Property, Trust and Probate", Editor-in-Chief, 1987

Representative Cases

• Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305 (U.S. Supreme Court 1997)

Ancillary Businesses

• Tax Preparation

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Guardianships & Conservatorships, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney and Appointment, Trusts, Wills, Family Law, Medicare & Medicaid, Veterans' Affairs, Litigation & Appeals, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Probate & Estate Administration, Estate Administration, Estate & Gift Taxation, Income Taxation