O. Cobb Bostick Jr.

Cobb Bostick focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, business succession planning, and taxation.

His experience includes analyzing estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxation issues, preparing primary estate plans (including wills, revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, general powers of attorney, and advanced healthcare directives), and trust and estate administration (including drafting nonjudicial settlement agreements, trustee resolutions for successor trustee designations, trustee resignations, trust asset distributions, trust decantings, trust divisions, and trust mergers). He also drafts probate court petitions and represents clients in probate court.

Cobb has experience in the drafting and implementation of sophisticated wealth transfer planning techniques, including complex wills, generation-skipping trusts, life insurance trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), Tennessee Investment Services Trusts (TISTs), and other estate planning instruments.