Larry Ford |

Larry J. Ford Attorney at Law

Larry Ford | Larry J. Ford Attorney at Law

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Larry J. Ford is an attorney whose practice concentrates on Estate and Medicaid Planning and related legal matters on behalf of clients and charitable organizations throughout Western North Carolina and North Georgia. During his 30 years of professional experience, he has advised clients in many areas of importance to older adults, including Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning, Personal Health Care & Retirement Planning, Real Estate Law, Tax Planning, and Trusts & Wills.

Ford’s current practice includes extensive work in Asset Protection, Business Planning, Buy-Sell Agreements, Corporations, Charitable Trusts, Estate Planning, Life Insurance Trusts, Limited Liability Companies, Living Trusts, Family Limited Partnerships, Medicaid Planning, Probate Avoidance Planning, and Federal Estate and Gift Tax Planning.

A native of Clay County, NC, and a magna cum laude graduate of Western Carolina University, he attended the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was awarded the Albert Ellis Fellowship by the UNC Law Alumni Foundation during all three years of study. Ford received the Juris Doctor degree and was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 1976.

After law school, Ford practiced in Hendersonville, NC, from 1976 to 1983. His areas of practice included business, civil litigation, real estate, and wills & estates.

After relocating to Charlotte in 1983, Ford’s professional interests and positions included serving as Vice President/Legal Counsel with a title insurance company, and as consultant to investment advisory firms, real estate and retirement housing developers, and individual clients.

While in Charlotte, Ford teamed with IPS Asset Management, a Registered Investment Advisory firm, to develop and present a series of estate and retirement planning seminars for corporate executives for companies such as Duke Power.

He returned to Western North Carolina in 1991 in order to provide estate planning, Medicaid Planning, retirement planning, and related services in Western North Carolina and North Georgia.

Ford is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, and the North Carolina Medicaid Practice Network. Ford is also a member of the Medicaid Practice Systems, LLC, a nationwide organization of estate planning attorneys in the U.S. who focus on Asset Protection and Medicaid Planning, as well as traditional Estate Planning, Estate & Gift Tax Planning, and Trusts.

In addition to conducting numerous seminars for various consumer, charitable, educational, and professional groups, Ford has authored “The Complete Estate Planning Workbook,” a consumer guide to estate planning for North Carolina residents, and “The Legal Advisor”, a weekly newspaper column on estate planning and related legal matters.

In 1995, Ford was selected by the National Business Institute, a national publisher and sponsor of professional continuing education programs, as co-presenter of a continuing education course on estate planning for attorneys, CPAs, and life insurance agents. He also co-authored “Estate Planning with the Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust in North Carolina,” a course book published by National Business Institute.

Ford’s hobbies include aviation and ham radio. In his civic activities, he is a past-President and Board Member of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce, and currently serves as Chairman and Board Member of the Clay County Travel & Tourism Authority.