Offer Services in These Areas:

  • Estate Planning
  • Charitable Planning
  • Trust and Probate Estate Administration
  • Business Structuring
  • Business Tax Planning
  • Business succession Planning

Our Mission Statement:

The mission of GAINES & ASSOCIATES, PLLC is to satisfy our clients by providing the highest quality
estate planning services possible. We do this by constantly keeping abreast of changes in estate planning
and by working closely with our clients and their financial advisors. Our goal is to assist you with an estate
plan which achieves your objectives with regard to maintaining control, passing your estate to your loved
ones, and the minimization of estate and inheritance taxes, as well as other costs.

Biographical Sketches
  Katina H. Gaines
Undergraduate degree from David Lipscomb University and law degree from University of Memphis. Former Law Clerk to the Judges of the Shelby County Probate Court. Member of the Memphis and Tennessee Bar Associations. Membership also in e.Planners Educational Alliance, WealthCounsel, the Memphis Estate Planning Council, and the Planned Giving Council of Greater Memphis, Fellow of the Esperti Peterson Institute for Wealth Strategies. Practice limited to estate planning, charitable planning, trust administration, probate estate administration, and wealth transfer strategies for high net worth individuals and their families.		  
   
  S. Gray Edmondson
Undergraduate degrees in Sociology, Political Science and German, cum laude, law degree from University of Mississippi, cum laude, and Masters of Laws degree in Taxation from New York University. Member of the Mississippi Bar Association. Practice limited to estate planning, wealth transfer planning, partnership tax planning, corporate tax planning and business transactions.		    
   
  Chad Cardwell
Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, cum laude, Master of Business Administration degree from University of Memphis, law degree from Regent University, and Master of Laws degree in Estate Planning from University of Miami. Member of the Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and U.S. Tax Court Bar Association. Practice limited to estate planning, charitable planning, trust administration, probate estate administration, and wealth transfer strategies for high net worth individuals and their families.