Christopher James Winton

Phi Beta Kappa. Co-Author: "Basic Drafting of Wills and Trusts in West Virginia," NBI, Inc. 1991; "Laying Claim: A Practitioner's Guide to Will Contests in West Virginia," 96 West Virginia Law Review 123 (1993); “Still Laying Claim: An Update to Developments in Will Contest Litigation in West Virginia”, 119 West Virginia Law Review Online 17 (2016). Author: "The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997: Still Waiting for The Relief," West Virginia Executive, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 26 Spring 1998; "West Virginia State Tax Procedure and Administration," chapter in West Virginia Practice Handbook, West Virginia State Bar, 2000, revised 2004; "ABA State Environmental Taxes Deskbook," West Virginia chapter, ABA, 2001; "The Death Tax is Not Dead: Estate Planning Highlights of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001," West Virginia Executive, p. 50, Winter 2001; "Probate Happens: How to Sell Real Estate During a Decedent's Estate Administration," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 30 (November/December 2005); Case note, "Thompson v. Barnhart: Irrevocable Trust Is Really Revocable When Remainder Beneficiaries Are Not Individually Named," The Trust SIG News 3, Spring 2006; "Probate Happens: How to Perform an Ancillary Administration in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 28 (May/June 2007); "Probate Happens: How to Involuntarily Remove the Personal Representative in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 36 (November/December 2007); "Probate Happens: How to Abate Creditors' Claims in An Insolvent Estate in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 30 (January-March 2009); "Probate Happens: How to Claim the Spousal Elective Share in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 28 (October-December 2009); "Probate Happens: How to Calculate the Spousal Elective Share in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 42 (October-December 2011); Author, Chapter 51, § 1139, Bogert The Law of Trusts and Trustees, "Asset Protection Trusts" (West Virginia chapter)(2017); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, "ACTEC Comparison of the Domestic Asset Protection Statutes" (2017-2020); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, "ACTEC State Survey of Asset Protection Techniques" (2018-2020); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, “ACTEC State Survey of Ancillary Probate” (2020); “Size Matters (In Probate, Too): The New 2021 West Virginia Small Estates Act,” The West Virginia Lawyer Vol. 52, p. 44 (Winter 2021-22); “Go Small, or Go Big: A Continuing Dialogue on the West Virginia Small Estates Act,” The West Virginia Lawyer Vol. 53, p. 44 (Spring 2022). Named, "West Virginia Super Lawyer," for Estate Planning and Probate by Super Lawyers Magazine (Law & Politics). Selected, "The Best Lawyers in America," for Trusts and Estates (since 2013). Named Best Lawyers’ Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year for Charleston, West Virginia 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025. Adjunct Professor, University of Charleston (West Virginia), Estate Planning FINA-415 (Fall 2022, Fall 2024).