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    Marc Huff

    Marcus A. Huff

    Partner

    Pensacola/Destin
    850-469-3322
    marc.huff@phelps.com
    Areas Of Focus
    BusinessTrusts and Estates/Estate PlanningTax

    Marc Huff advises families and individuals regarding estate planning tailored to their specific needs. Marc structures estate plans to preserve privacy and flexibility while fulfilling clients’ legacy goals and making efficient use of tax exemptions.

    Marc also has extensive experience advising corporate and individual fiduciaries regarding all facets of trust and estate administration. Should disputes occur, his litigation experience helps protect fiduciaries and individuals in trust and will contests, undue influence challenges, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

    Additionally, Marc guides business owners through the formation, growth, and sale of their businesses. His corporate practice includes entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and the drafting and negotiating of key business agreements.

    Additionally, Marc guides business owners through the formation, growth, and sale of their businesses. His corporate practice includes entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and the drafting and negotiating of key business agreements.

    Experience

    • Represented personal representative of an estate valued at over $12 million.
    • Obtained reformation of a last will on behalf of beneficiary in a dispute over the construction of the last will.
    • Represented personal representative of an estate involving a dispute over the validity of the purported last will.
    • Advised corporate trustee in terminating several complex trusts with numerous beneficiaries.
    • Represented beneficiaries of estate where personal representative wrongfully used proceeds of rental properties for her own benefit to the exclusion of the estate beneficiaries and creditors.
    • Defended individual trustee facing claims of breach of fiduciary duty related to sale of trust assets.
    • Assisted medical professional in purchasing practice with multiple locations throughout northwest Florida.

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    Recognition

    • AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
    • AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

    Education

    • University of Alabama School of Law, LL.M., Taxation, magna cum laude, 2017
    • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2005
    • Clemson University, B.S., Financial Management, magna cum laude, 2002
    • University of Alabama School of Law, LL.M., Taxation, magna cum laude, 2017
    • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2005
    • Clemson University, B.S., Financial Management, magna cum laude, 2002

    Credentials

    • Florida
    • Alabama
    • Texas
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    • U.S. Tax Court
    • Florida
    • Alabama
    • Texas
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    • U.S. Tax Court

    Memberships and Affiliations

    • Estate Planning Council of the Emerald Coast, Board of Directors
    • Estate Planning Council of Northwest Florida – President (2021), Board of Directors
    • The Florida Bar, Tax Section, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section – Chair, First Circuit Grievance Committee “A”
    • Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association
    • Estate Planning Council of the Emerald Coast, Board of Directors
    • Estate Planning Council of Northwest Florida – President (2021), Board of Directors
    • The Florida Bar, Tax Section, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section – Chair, First Circuit Grievance Committee “A”
    • Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association
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    • Trusts and Estates/Estate Planning
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    • Tax Controversies
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    • Mergers and Acquisitions
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