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Scott Reib — Estate Planning Strategy Session
North Texas Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning for North Texas Business Owners

You built your business. Don't leave its future to chance. Reib Law creates estate plans specifically for North Texas entrepreneurs — clear, flat-fee, and built around your business structure.

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Serving Denton · Frisco · Plano · McKinney · Collin & Denton Counties

Texas State Bar Member
Flat-Fee Pricing — No Hourly Billing
Based in Denton — Serving All of North Texas
Free Strategy Session — Same-Week Availability

The Risk You Can't Afford to Ignore

Most North Texas Business Owners Are One Event Away from a Crisis

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No Succession Plan = Courts Decide

Without a documented transfer plan, a Texas probate court determines who inherits your business — not you. Partners, family members, and creditors can all make competing claims while operations freeze.

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No Trust = Probate Is Guaranteed

A will alone does not avoid probate in Texas. Without a living trust, your estate becomes a public court proceeding — costing months of time, thousands of dollars, and your family's privacy.

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No Buy-Sell = Your Partner Inherits a Problem

If you have a business partner and no buy-sell agreement, your death or disability forces your partner into co-ownership with your surviving spouse or children — regardless of whether that's workable.

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No Power of Attorney = Family Goes to Court

If you're incapacitated without a durable power of attorney, your family must petition a Texas court for legal guardianship before they can manage a single account or sign a single document on your behalf.

Estate Planning Services

Every Document Your Business and Family Needs — Under One Roof

Reib Law handles your complete estate plan at a flat fee. No hourly billing, no incomplete documents, no gaps between your personal estate and your business structure.

Wills & Last Testaments

A valid Texas will directs your property, names your executor, designates guardians for minor children, and removes any ambiguity about your wishes. The foundation of every estate plan.

Living Trusts

A revocable living trust transfers your assets to heirs without probate, keeps your estate private, and maintains continuity if you're incapacitated. Essential for business owners with real estate or multiple entities.

Business Succession Planning

A documented succession plan covers every transition scenario — exit, sale, death, or disability. We coordinate it with your entity documents and buy-sell agreements so there are no gaps and no surprises for your partners or family.

Powers of Attorney

Durable and medical powers of attorney authorize trusted people to manage your finances, legal affairs, and healthcare decisions if you can't. Without these, your family faces a court-supervised guardianship process before they can act.

Asset Protection

Proper separation of personal and business assets is the difference between a lawsuit targeting your business and a lawsuit threatening everything you own. We structure your assets so one exposure doesn't become total exposure.

Directive to Physicians & HIPAA Authorization

A directive to physicians documents your end-of-life medical preferences so your family doesn't face impossible decisions alone. HIPAA authorization ensures the right people have access to your medical information when they need it most.

Scott Reib — Estate Planning Attorney, Denton TX

Why Reib Law

Built for Business Owners. Not General Clients.

Every generalist estate planning firm in North Texas drafts the same documents. Reib Law does something different — we start with your business and build the estate plan around it.

Business-First, Not Document-First

We review your entity structure, operating agreements, and any existing buy-sell arrangements before drafting a single document. Your personal estate plan and your business structure have to work together — and most attorneys never connect the two.

Flat-Fee. No Hourly Surprises.

Estate planning is too important to leave to billing uncertainty. Reib Law quotes a clear, fixed price after your strategy session — before we begin drafting. You know exactly what you're investing.

Plain Language. No Jargon.

We walk you through every document in plain English. You'll understand what you're signing and why before you sign it. No legal theater, no condescension — just clear answers to your actual questions.

North Texas. Not a National Call Center.

Reib Law is headquartered in Denton. We know the North Texas courts, the pace of growth in Collin and Denton Counties, and the specific planning pressures facing entrepreneurs in this market.

Find out where your plan is exposed — in 3 minutes.

The Legacy Continuity Risk Assessment™ identifies structural gaps in your estate and business succession plan, then routes you to the right configuration for your situation. Private. No obligation. Instant results.

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Service Area

Estate Planning Attorney — North Texas

Reib Law serves business owners and families throughout Collin and Denton Counties. Most consultations are available by phone or video.

Denton, TX

Estate Planning Attorney in Denton, TX

Denton is home to a rapidly growing professional and entrepreneurial base — and it's where Reib Law is headquartered. Whether you're a business owner without a succession plan, a partner without a buy-sell agreement, or a family without a will, the window to plan is now. We're local, we're accessible, and we're taking new clients.

Frisco, TX

Estate Planning Attorney in Frisco, TX

Frisco business owners face a specific planning challenge: they've built significant wealth quickly, often across multiple entities, and their estate plans haven't kept pace. A business you started five years ago in a single LLC may now need a trust, a succession plan, and a buy-sell agreement. If your legal foundation hasn't been updated alongside your growth, it's time.

Plano, TX

Estate Planning Attorney in Plano, TX

Plano's concentration of executives, founders, and multi-entity operators makes it one of the highest-need markets for business-integrated estate planning in North Texas. The question isn't whether you need a plan — it's whether the plan you have actually covers your business. Most don't. We fix that.

McKinney, TX

Estate Planning Attorney in McKinney, TX

McKinney is growing fast and remains underserved by experienced estate planning attorneys who understand business succession. If you've relocated to McKinney, started a business here, or taken on partners without proper legal structure, getting your estate plan in place now — before a triggering event — is one of the most important decisions you can make.

Also serving Allen, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Carrollton, The Colony, Little Elm, and communities throughout Collin and Denton Counties.

Scott Reib in a strategy session with North Texas business owners

About Scott Reib

The Attorney Business Owners Trust Across North Texas

Scott Reib has spent years helping North Texas entrepreneurs build the legal foundation their businesses need to survive — and their families need to thrive. He speaks regularly to business owner groups across the country on asset protection, succession planning, and the legal mistakes that put everything at risk.

At Reib Law, Scott built a firm specifically for entrepreneurs — flat-fee pricing, plain-language explanations, and legal strategy that starts with your business, not a document checklist.

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Scott Reib — Estate Planning Attorney, Reib Law Denton TX

How It Works

Three Steps from Exposed to Protected

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Take the Free Assessment

Six questions. Three minutes. You'll identify your structural gaps and get routed to the right estate planning configuration for your situation — before you ever speak to an attorney.

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Strategy Session with a Reib Law Attorney

A 45-minute structured session where a Reib Law attorney reviews your risk profile, closes the gaps in your current plan, and presents a clear, flat-fee recommendation. Private. No obligation.

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Confidence You Are Protected

Your complete estate and continuity plan is built, reviewed in plain language, executed, and installed. You know exactly what happens to your business and family if something happens to you.

Estate Planning in Texas — What You Need to Know

What a Complete Estate Plan Actually Covers for a Texas Business Owner

Most business owners in North Texas have started thinking about estate planning — and most have done very little about it. A will from five years ago, maybe a trust that hasn't been funded, a buy-sell agreement drafted when the business looked completely different. That's not a plan. That's exposure with paperwork.

A complete estate plan for a Texas business owner is a coordinated system — one where every document works with every other document, and where your personal estate and your business structure are fully aligned. At Reib Law, that system includes:

  • Last Will and Testament — directs your personal property, names your executor, designates guardians for minor children if applicable
  • Revocable Living Trust — transfers assets to heirs without probate, keeps your estate private, and maintains continuity of management during incapacity
  • Durable Power of Attorney — authorizes a trusted person to manage financial and legal decisions if you're incapacitated
  • Medical Power of Attorney — authorizes healthcare decisions if you cannot make them yourself
  • Directive to Physicians — documents your end-of-life medical preferences so your family isn't forced into impossible choices
  • HIPAA Authorization — ensures the right people can access your medical information when it's needed
  • Business Succession Plan — a documented, executable plan covering exit, sale, death, and disability scenarios
  • Buy-Sell Agreement Review and Alignment — ensures your buy-sell and your estate plan tell the same story, not conflicting ones

The most common mistake we see is treating these as separate documents rather than a connected system. A trust that doesn't cover your business interest. A buy-sell that contradicts your will. A succession plan that assumes you're the only decision-maker when you have two partners. Each gap is a potential crisis waiting for a triggering event.

The second most common mistake is waiting. Estate planning is one of those decisions that feels non-urgent until it suddenly isn't. At Reib Law, most plans are complete within two to three weeks from the first session. The cost is a fraction of what a single probate proceeding, ownership dispute, or guardianship petition will cost your family.

If you're a business owner in Denton, Frisco, Plano, McKinney, or anywhere in Collin or Denton County — the right time to get your plan in place is before you need it.

70%
of family-owned businesses do not survive the transition to a second generation without a documented succession plan in place.
$0
is what a business is worth when courts, creditors, or family disputes control the transition instead of the founder's documented plan.
1 Event
is all it takes — a lawsuit, a partner dispute, a death, a disability — to collapse everything built without continuity architecture in place.

Common Questions

Estate Planning Questions — Answered Plainly

A living trust is not required in Texas, but it is one of the most effective tools for business owners who want to avoid probate, keep their estate private, and ensure a seamless transfer of ownership. Without a trust, your estate goes through the Texas probate process — which is public, slow, and can cost thousands of dollars. A will alone does not avoid probate. We help you decide whether a trust, a will, or both makes sense for your specific situation.
In Texas, you can avoid probate by placing assets inside a revocable living trust, naming beneficiaries directly on financial accounts and life insurance policies, using Transfer on Death deeds for real estate, or holding property in joint tenancy with right of survivorship. For business owners, proper entity structuring and buy-sell agreements are equally critical. A complete estate plan coordinates all of these strategies so nothing falls through the cracks.
Without an estate plan, your business passes through Texas intestate succession laws — which may transfer ownership to heirs who are unprepared or in conflict with your partners. Your business could be frozen in probate for months, disrupting operations and breaching contracts. Co-owners may be forced into a partnership with your surviving family. A business succession plan, combined with a buy-sell agreement and proper entity alignment, prevents all of this.
A complete estate plan for a Texas business owner includes a last will and testament, a revocable living trust, durable power of attorney, medical power of attorney, HIPAA authorization, a directive to physicians (living will), a business succession plan, and coordination with existing buy-sell agreements and entity structures. At Reib Law, we review all of these together to ensure your personal estate and business structure are fully aligned.
Reib Law uses flat-fee pricing — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices. The assessment and initial strategy session are free. After reviewing your situation, we provide a clear, fixed quote before drafting begins. Many clients cover estate planning through their Reib Law Access Plan membership.
Yes. Reib Law serves clients throughout North Texas including Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Allen, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Carrollton, and across Collin and Denton Counties. Many consultations are conducted by phone or video, so location is rarely a barrier.
A durable power of attorney authorizes a trusted person to manage your financial and legal affairs if you become incapacitated. A medical power of attorney covers healthcare decisions. Without these documents, your family must petition a Texas court for legal guardianship before they can act on your behalf — a process that takes months and costs thousands of dollars. Both are standard components of every Reib Law estate plan.
Most estate plans are completed within two to three weeks from the initial strategy session. We gather your information, draft all documents, walk you through everything in plain language, and schedule a signing appointment. Business owners with multi-entity structures or complex succession needs may require additional time to align all documents properly.

Find Out Where Your Business Is Exposed — In 3 Minutes

The Legacy Continuity Risk Assessment™ identifies your structural gaps and routes you to the right plan. Private. No obligation. Instant results.

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