Charles E McWilliams Jr.
Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh, PC
- Biography
Chuck has practiced in Winchester and throughout northern Virginia since 2007. He is both a lawyer and a Certified Public Accountant (with an LL.M in Tax and Estate Planning) and worked in public accounting before attending law school. Chuck’s practice focuses on complex estate planning and administration matters, resolving tax disputes, business planning, choice of entity, conservation easements and other business matters. Chuck has extensive training in complex estate and business matters and his practice focuses primarily on business owners and families with more than $1 million in liquid assets. Chuck regularly works to resolve family disputes, establish business succession plans and protect spendthrift beneficiaries.
- Practice Areas
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Elder Law
- Fees
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Estate and business planning matters are often completed on a flat-fee basis. Other matters are billed hourly. The firm does accept credit cards, if needed, but reserves the right to charge processing fees on large transactions. In rare cases, we will accept contingent fee cases.
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
- Since 2015
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- Languages
- English:
Spoken, Written
- Professional Experience
- Shareholder
- Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh, PC
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Current
- Member/Manager
- Commonwealth Credit Exchange, LLC
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2012 –
Current
- CCE serves as an accommodation party for land preservation tax credit sales in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Member/Manager
- Winchester Property Management, LLC
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2008 –
Current
- Provides property management services for complex and unusual asset classes such as commercial and industrial properties, land leases, billboards, farms, etc.
- Education
- Georgetown University Law Center
- LL.M. (2015) | Taxation
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2013
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2015 - Honors: Certificate in Estate Planning
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- George Mason University School of Law
- J.D. (2007) | Estate Planning & Taxation
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2004
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2007 -
- George Mason University
- B.S. (2004) | Accounting
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2002
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2004 - Certified Public Accountant
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- Hampden-Sydney College
- B.A. (2002) | Political Science
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1998
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2002 -
- Awards
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers Magazine
- 2017
- Top Lawyers: Estate & Gift Taxation
- Northern Virginia Magazine
- 2015
- Legal Elite: Taxes, Trusts, Estate & Elder Law
- Virginia Business Magazine
- 2014
- AV Preeminent
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Professional Associations
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Virginia State Bar
 # 75186
- Current
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- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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