MARILYN S. SIMS, born Weimer, Texas, 1959; admitted to the bar 1992, Texas. EDUCATION: University of Houston-Clear Lake (B.S. summa cum laude, 1988); University of Houston (J.D., 1992). CERTIFICATIONS: Certified Public Accountant, Texas. MEMBER: U.S. Supreme Court Bar, State Bar of Texas, Houston, Pasadena and American Bar Associations (Probate, Trust and Real Estate Sections), College of the State Bar of Texas, Texas and Houston Society of CPAs, Order of the Barons, Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society, Attorneys in Tax & Probate, and various professional study groups.
E-mail: msims@wkpz.com 
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"AV" Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Sims concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, advising clients and preparing estate and asset protection plans, and creating the related documentation and entities for clients ranging from very small to twenty million dollar estates. Representative documentation includes wills, living wills, general durable powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney, specific powers of attorney, living trusts, life insurance trusts, education trusts, children's trusts, family limited partnerships, charitable giving plans, guardian designations, disposition arrangements, beneficiary designation on non-probate assets, pre-marital and post-marital agreements, partition and transmutation agreements, and various other related property agreements.
Her practice in the probate area includes probate of wills, administration of estates, heirship proceedings, guardianship proceedings (minors and elders), representation of beneficiaries, court appointed administrator, ad litem and guardian of estates.
In addition, Ms. Sims assists her clients with the formation of all types of entities including limited partnerships, family limited partnerships, general partnerships, joint ventures, corporations, limited liability companies, professional corporations and associations, as well as non-profit corporations, discussing the advantages and disadvantages (with regard to liability, tax and administrative costs) of each type of structure. She further prepares organizational and annual documentation and any ancillary agreements related to the entity structure, including buy-sell agreements, salary continuation agreements, split dollar agreements, benefits agreements, licensing agreements, private debenture offerings, and negotiations and documentation of the sale or merger of our client's businesses.
In the area of real estate, Ms. Sims assists our clients in the acquisition, sale, development, leasing, financing, and foreclosure of real property, as well as negotiation of construction contracts, leases and representation of custom homebuilders.
Ms. Sims civic activities include being a Chartered Honored Endowment Fund Scholar of the College of the State Bar of Texas, a Life Fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation, a director of the Deer Park Education Foundation and as a director of the Bill and Helen Crowder Foundation. Ms. Sims also serves as an officer of various professional organizations.
