High Net Worth Business, Trust & Estate Planning Attorneys
Big Spring, Texas
Continuum Counsel serves high net worth and ultra-high-net-worth families in Big Spring with dedicated high net worth estate planning attorney, high net worth business attorney, and high net worth trust attorney counsel — led by a dual-licensed Attorney and CPA.
Big Spring sits at the northern edge of the Permian Basin, where multigenerational ranching families, oil-and-gas royalty interests, energy-sector services owners, and regional medical and banking principals concentrate the area's HNW wealth. Howard County and the surrounding Permian-North corridor produce a distinct planning profile: high mineral-interest concentration, large-acreage ranches, and operating partnerships that span four-plus generations. Continuum Counsel's Big Spring engagements are structured for legacy families who need their estate plan to actually fit the working ranch and mineral assets it governs.
HNW Estate Planning · Ultra-High-Net-Worth Families
Built for Big Spring Families at $7M, $30M, and Beyond
Whether your household is navigating its first major liquidity event at $7M–$15M, managing a closely-held business at $15M–$50M, or stewarding multigenerational wealth at $50M+, your estate plan needs to do three things simultaneously: minimize transfer tax, preserve family governance, and withstand future creditors and divorce. Continuum Counsel designs each one as a single integrated engagement.
SLAT + ILIT + revocable trust core. Pre-sunset exemption maximization. Business succession alignment.
IDGT + GRAT ladder + FLP valuation discounts. Pre-liquidity-event planning. Dynasty trust funding.
Directed trusts, multi-generational governance, private family office structure, charitable lead trusts, cross-border coordination.
Local Coverage
Serving Big Spring and Surrounding HNW Communities
“Our family's ranch and mineral holdings have been here since the 1940s. The estate plan we inherited from a previous attorney didn't even mention mineral interests. Continuum Counsel rebuilt the whole structure around the assets — and the dynasty trust now genuinely protects the next four generations.”
Big Spring · Common Questions
High Net Worth & Ultra-High-Net-Worth FAQs — Big Spring
What does a high net worth estate planning attorney in Big Spring do?
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A high net worth estate planning attorney in Big Spring, Texas designs and implements estate plans for families whose net worth approaches or exceeds the federal estate tax exemption (~$13.99M per person in 2025, scheduled to sunset in 2026). Continuum Counsel's Big Spring practice includes dynasty trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), GRATs, intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), charitable remainder trusts, family limited partnerships, and pre-liquidity-event planning. Led by Darryl V. Pratt — dual-licensed Texas Attorney + CPA — the firm coordinates legal structure with tax strategy in a single engagement rather than handing work off to a separate tax advisor.
What does a high net worth business attorney in Big Spring do?
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A high net worth business attorney in Big Spring advises founders, business owners, and executives with significant equity or closely-held business interests on entity structuring, buy-sell agreements, pre-exit planning, M&A, and succession. Continuum Counsel serves Big Spring business owners approaching a major liquidity event — sale, recapitalization, IPO, RSU vest — as well as physicians with multi-location practices, franchisees with multi-unit portfolios, and family-owned enterprises planning generational transition. Every engagement is coordinated with the client's estate plan and asset-protection structure through the Pinnacle Protection Plan™.
What does a high net worth trust attorney in Big Spring do?
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A high net worth trust attorney in Big Spring drafts and administers advanced trust structures designed to preserve wealth across generations, minimize estate and transfer tax exposure, and protect assets from future creditors and divorce. Continuum Counsel's Big Spring trust practice drafts and funds Texas dynasty trusts (up to 300 years), irrevocable trusts (ILIT, GRAT, IDGT, CRT/CLT, SLAT), directed trusts, and multi-generational family trusts, coordinating with institutional trustees, CPAs, and financial advisors as a unified fiduciary team.
What does Continuum Counsel do for ultra-high-net-worth families in Big Spring?
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Continuum Counsel's ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) practice serves Big Spring-area families with $30M+ in total assets who require the most sophisticated legal architecture available under Texas and federal law. UHNW engagements typically include layered dynasty trusts (often domiciled in Texas or South Dakota), family limited partnerships with valuation discounts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) rolled in a laddered sequence, intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs) funded with installment sales, spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs) used before the 2026 exemption sunset, charitable lead trusts (CLTs) and charitable remainder trusts (CRTs), private family offices, directed trust governance, and pre-immigration and pre-liquidity-event planning. Every UHNW plan is designed as one integrated strategy alongside the client's CPAs, wealth managers, trustees, and insurance advisors.
Why Big Spring families choose Continuum Counsel over a downtown wealth firm
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Three reasons Big Spring high net worth and ultra-high-net-worth families consistently choose Continuum Counsel: (1) Dual-licensure — Darryl V. Pratt is both a licensed Texas Attorney and a Certified Public Accountant, so estate, business, and trust strategies are designed with simultaneous legal and tax optimization rather than handed off between two firms; (2) Direct attorney access — Private Client Services clients work directly with the attorney, not through paralegals or a staff gatekeeping queue common at large downtown firms; (3) Integrated Pinnacle Protection Plan™ — business succession, estate plan, asset protection, and trust structures are coordinated in a single engagement so they reinforce rather than contradict each other.