Steve Welch, Esq.
Managing Attorney
E: steve@welchcounsel.com
O: (404) 647-4476
F: (770) 932-9685
Steve’s professional journey began at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where he majored in Religion and Philosophy. After graduating with honors, he decided to channel his propensity for reading and writing late into the night at the University of Georgia Law School.
After graduating, Steve settled into domestic relations litigation for a few years with boutique law firms across Atlanta. Steve stayed true to form for as long as his doctor permitted him to continue, but, after horrible lab results, his personal physician told him to stop whatever he was doing or, “…you’ll be dead by the time you’re 40.” His supervising partner told him at this point, “You let this stuff get to you too much–you’d be a much better tax lawyer.” So in 2002, Steve fully transitioned into the field of wealth transfer planning, where he has stayed pretty much without exception since concentrating his work in estate, tax planning/administration, and business consulting, as well as finding the most tax efficient methods for structuring personal, inter-family, and third-party transactions of many kinds.
In 2012, a client asked him to undertake a nearly three-year project to open and platform a family office. In late 2014, he re-entered private practice and about a year later, opened WelchCounsel, PC, to “counsel stewards of wealth in and out of court, with or without a plan” across Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee. He is married to his wife, Anita, and has two sons from a former marriage: Stephen Paul, and John Ryan.
Organizations:
Elected member of e.Planners®
Original members of WealthCounsel, a national consortium of estate planning professionals
Estate Planning Councils of North Georgia and the Emerald Coast
Association of Corporate Counsel
Law licenses:
Georgia: Fiduciary, Business, and Taxation Law sections of the State Bar of Georgia
Florida: Business Law, Tax and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections of the Florida Bar
Tennessee: Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Tennessee Bar Association