Andy Lipscomb is a dedicated and client-focused attorney with years of experience in estate planning, probate administration, and trust law. He has a proven ability to provide comprehensive legal guidance to individuals and families, helping them protect and distribute their assets. He is adept at handling complex probate cases, drafting customized estate plans, and ensuring compliance with state laws. Andy is known for strong analytical skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a compassionate approach to sensitive family matters.
Legal Services Provided
- Estate Planning
- Counsel clients on estate, asset protection, and legacy planning strategies that preserve wealth, clarify decision-making, and reduce uncertainty.
- Draft wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and related instruments tailored to client objectives and Georgia law.
- Coordinate beneficiary designations, trust funding, retitling, and ownership structures to align implementation with the overall plan.
- Prepare guardianship, conservatorship, special needs trust, fiduciary-power, and beneficiary-protection provisions for vulnerable individuals and families.
- Business Transactions & Succession Planning
- Draft and negotiate M&A and business transaction documents, including LOIs, asset purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, closing checklists, escrow instructions, assignments, and related closing deliverables.
- Advise closely held and family-owned businesses on succession planning, ownership transitions, buy-sell provisions, governance, and continuity strategies.
- Coordinate closings by organizing deliverables, tracking open items, and moving parties from agreement to completed transfer.
- Estate Administration
- Represent executors, administrators, trustees, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries in probate, trust administration, and related matters.
- Manage probate filings, inventories, accountings, notices, creditor issues, court reporting, compliance obligations, and final distributions.
- Draft estate-related real estate transfers, executor’s deeds, property dispositions, title coordination, and closing support.
Leadership
- Bar Association Membership and Leadership
- Georgia Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Forsyth County Bar Association
- Fiduciary Law Section
Education
- Juris Doctor (J.D.)
- Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, GA, Graduated 2014
- BBA, Business Administration; Real Estate specialization; Political Science Minor
- University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Athens, GA, Graduated 2009
