Keith V. Novick
Partner
Dallas
214.999.4238
Estate planning attorney Keith Novick concentrates his practice on trusts and estates and sophisticated
private wealth matters, often for Dallas-area entrepreneurs, professionals and executives in oil and gas, real
estate and other sectors. Keith’s institutional and business clients – from middle-market to Fortune 500
companies – rely on him for a wide variety of transactional services and issues, including:
Business succession and disposition
Trust administration services
Marital property planning, including the preparation of pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial
agreements
Multigenerational, family-owned businesses
Estate planning, including the preparation of sophisticated wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts and
related documents that result in the reduction of estate taxes and generation-skipping transfer taxes
Probate
Estate litigation
Charitable planning, including the creation and implementation of charitable remainder trusts,
charitable lead trusts and private foundations
Asset protection planning
Business entity formation and business succession planning
Keith represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in estate and trust administration services, and clients in tax
controversies before the Internal Revenue Service. In addition, he represents executors and administrators in
the handling of estates, including will probate, preparing the federal “estate tax” return (IRS Form 706),
preparing the estate inventory and/or accounting, will contests and estate tax litigation. He works with trustees
on the administration of trusts and related matters, including the interpretation and construction of trust
provisions, the appointment or removal of trustees, and trust accounting.
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Keith also represents beneficiaries of estates and trusts, individuals and families, regarding the formation,
operation and transfer of family business and property ventures, including corporations, partnerships (general
and limited), limited liability companies, trusts and tax-exempt organizations.
Awards and Recognition
Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America
©
in the field of Trusts and Estates
(2003 – 2024)
Selected for inclusion in the Texas Super Lawyers
®
list, a Thomson Reuters business, as published in
Texas Super Lawyers Magazine
Estate Planning & Probate (2003 – 2017)
Recognized, AV Preeminent
®
5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
®
Peer Review
Ratings
™
Affiliations
Member, State Bar of Texas
Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section
Tax Section
Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Member, Dallas Bar Association
Probate, Trusts & Estates Section
Member, The College of the State Bar of Texas
Member, Dallas Estate Planning Council
Member, American Bar Association
Community Involvement
Member, Advisory Council, The Dallas Foundation
Member, Advisory Council, Communities Foundation of Texas
Member, Development Committee, Cotes du Coeur, American Heart Association
Alumni Member, Dallas Regional Chamber
Fundraising Chair, Gardere Gearheads, Bike MS, National MS Society
Volunteer, Meals on Wheels
Member, Highland Park United Methodist Church
Graduate, Dallas Regional Chamber
®
, Leadership Dallas (1993)
Practice Areas
Corporate
Estate Planning
Education
Texas Tech University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1984)
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Texas Tech University (B.B.A., 1980)
Admissions
Texas (1984)
Texas State Courts (1984)
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