About Lifeboat 14

Practice Areas

• Business successions
• End-of-life planning with personalized advance directives:
• Directives to physicians
• Living wills
• Medical powers of attorney
• Estate administration and planning
• Estate planning for parents of children with special needs
• Guardianships
• Long-term care costs
• Nursing home rights
• Preserving assets from the threats of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes
• Probate
• Trusts

Credentials: Mr. Bauman is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, and in all Texas state courts. He is a member of these legal organizations:

• State Bar of Texas
• Smith County Bar Association
• East Texas Estate Planning Council (former board member)
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (past president of Texas chapter, NAELA)

Noteworthy accomplishments and community involvement

• Past president of Smith County Young Lawyers
• Recognized expert in planning for families of children with disabilities and other special needs
• Assistant District Attorney, Smith County, Texas, 1993 to 1995
• Legal advisor, Smith County Court, 1993 to 1995
• Phi Delta Phi Fraternity member
• Past president of the Tyler Rotary Club
• Deacon at Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler
• Youth ministry volunteer

Practice Areas

• Advance directives
• Business successions and corporate structuring
• Partnerships
• Limited liability companies
• End-of-life planning
• Living wills
• Estate administration and planning
• Estate planning for parents of children with special needs
• Guardianships
• Long-term care planning
• Medical powers of attorney
• Nursing home rights
• Preserving assets from the threats of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes
• Probate
• Trusts

Credentials: Mr. Smith is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Court in the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas and in all Texas state courts. His memberships in legal organizations include:

• State Bar of Texas
• Smith County Bar Association
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• East Texas Estate Planning Council (director)
• Certified as attorney ad litem by the State Bar of Texas

Noteworthy accomplishments and community involvement

• East Texas Men’s Fellowship (past president and director)
• Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce (Senior Citizens Committee)
• President of Board of Directors for Children’s Village and Goodwill Industries of East Texas
• Active member of Green Acres Baptist Church
• Coordinator of the Tyler Azalea Trail 10K and Fun Run (benefiting Children’s Village) for the past five years

Practice Areas

• Estate and business planning
• Trusts
• Business transactional law
• Probate
• Certified Mediation
• Real estate

Credentials

• State Bar of Texas
• Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
• Certified Mediator
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• Smith County Bar Foundation Fellow
• Smith County Bar Association (past board member and treasurer)
• East Texas Estate Planning Council (past board member)
• Smith County Young Lawyers Bar Association (past president)

Noteworthy accomplishments and community involvement

• East Texas Communities Foundation (board member)
• Marvin United Methodist Church (past president of the Administrative Board, and of the Board of Trustees, and Sunday school teacher)
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters (past president)
• Tejas Missions (board member)
• Bethesda Foundation (past president)
• Tyler Rotary (past president)
• Rockin C Ranch (founding board member)
• *Hospice of East Texas- Board Member
• *Trinity Mother Hospital System Foundation Board Member