Joseph T. Buxton III
Joseph T. "Chip" Buxton III is the founder and President
of Joseph T. Buxton III, P.C., a Professional Law Corporation which
does business as the TrustBuilders Law Group. Formerly the Associate
General Council and Corporate Attorney for the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company, he has been in private practice since 1978.
Mr. Buxton and his staff specialize exclusively on wills, trusts
and other estate planning instruments as well as asset protection,
medicaid planning, and elder care issues. Although the Virginia
State Bar has no procedure for approving certifying organizations,
Mr. Buxton has been designated a certified elder law attorney by
the National Law Foundation.
A native of Newport News, Mr. Buxton received his B.A. from Denison
University (Ohio) and his J.D. from the Marshall Wythe School of
Law of the College of William and Mary. He is also a graduate of
the Navy's Officer Candidate School and the U.S. Naval School of
Justice and holds the rank of Commander USNR (Ret.). He has served
as President of the Tidewater Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
and President of the Peninsula Estate Planning Council. He is currently
a member of the Virginia Bar, Florida Bar, Financial Planning Association,
Middle Peninsula Bar Association, and the National Academy of Elder
Law Attorneys. He has also been appointed commissioner in Chancery
by the Circuit Court of Middlesex County.
In 1994, Governor Allen appointed Mr. Buxton as Escheator for Middlesex
County, a post he held until 1996. He has served as an adjunct Law
Professor at the Regent University School of Law, teaching Advanced
Estate Planning.
Mr. Buxton and his wife, Mary Wakefield Buxton, a writer and columnist,
live in Urbanna, Virginia. Their son, George P. Wakefield Buxton,
is a graduate from Regent Law School and the University of Miami
Masters Program in estate Planning. He is presently Trust Counsel
for Securian Financial Network for the East Coast and contributing
editor of our newsletter The Buxton Bulletin. Their daughter, Elizabeth,
is in historic preservation in Baltimore, Maryland.
To read the history of the Buxton family, CLICK
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 Kristof G. Koletar - Attorney at Law
Kris Koletar is originally from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He
graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University in South Orange,
New Jersey, with a B.A. in Criminal Justice, then worked for one
year as a real estate paralegal with the law firm of Wilf &
Silverman in Short Hills, New Jersey, in-house counsel to Garden
Homes, Inc., one of the largest real estate development firms in
the United States. He became the lead paralegal for the Canal Walk
development, and ultimately became the Firm Administrator before
leaving New Jersey to attend the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at
the College of William & Mary. During his time at William &
Mary, he was a member of the Sports & Entertainment Law Society,
Federalist Society, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Society, and volunteered
his time with the Legal Skills program and annual Bone Marrow Drive.
He joined TrustBuilders Law Group as an associate attorney in October,
2006.
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Sharon L. Lester - Office Administrator/Personnel Manager,
Peninsula/Urbanna Offices
Vonda Flannery - Production Manager, Peninsula
Office
May Ellen Oakley - Office Manager, Urbanna Office
Betsy Wise - Bookkeeper, Urbanna/Yorktown Offices
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