Rodney Hatley
California attorney · Estate Planning · Tax
Rodney Hatley is an attorney licensed in California and Tennessee and a verified member of the XIRA marketplace. Rodney's practice covers estate planning, wills and trusts and tax, including Estate and gift taxation, Estate planning, State Tax and Corporate taxation. Rodney earned a JD from University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1986.
About Rodney Hatley
"A seven-year probate?! Are you freaking kidding me?”
That’s how I made the transition from being a Navy JAG, representing the accused at courts-martial, to focusing on estate planning.
My father had been ill with leukemia before he passed. He had a complicated estate and was unable to do anything other than a simple will. Unfortunately, wills go through probate. As a result, my sister and I endured a multi-year court procedure. I resolved to do something positive with that experience and became an estate planning attorney.
At Hatley Law Group, A P.C., we view estate planning through the lens of asset protection. We partner with our clients to protect everyone they love and everything they own. In addition to foundational estate planning, the planning we do for our clients may include advanced strategies to eliminate, or greatly mitigate, estate, generation-skipping transfer (GST), and gift taxes as well as domestic or offshore asset protection trusts, depending on their needs/goals.
Here are some other benefits that clients realize by working with us:
✔ They maintain privacy over their affairs;
✔ They ensure that the lifestyle they've earned is maintained;
✔ They have certainty that they will keep the government out of their lives (no conservatorship if they become incapacitated and no probate when they pass);
✔ Their loved ones and assets are protected from "creditors and predators" (i.e., lawsuits and divorcing spouses); and
✔ Much more.
If you want to protect
Practice areas and rates
Consultation $15 · $600/hour · Fixed-fee options (all practice areas)
Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts
Estate and gift taxation · Estate planning
Tax
State Tax · Corporate taxation · Tax Planning · Federal Tax · Charitable giving
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Licenses and credentials
- Licensed in California · Bar no. 158606 · Verify with the state bar
- Licensed in Tennessee · Bar no. 012423 · Verify with the state bar
- BA, Political Science · Rhodes College (1983)
- JD, Law · University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (1986)
- LLM, Taxation · University of San Diego School of Law (1996)
- Languages · English
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