Family Background

Goodson, Manley, Forakis and Deloughery, PLC is a Phoenix based law firm which specializes in business, estate tax, and financial planning law. They provide businesses and families with advice and legal structures - wills, trusts, partnerships, corporations, pension plans, contracts and strategies for legal moves which reduce taxes, prevent or lessen the gravity of devastating events and generally protect families and businesses utilizing the concepts of preventive law. They serve as general counsel for families and businesses. After they initially "overhaul" a new client, they schedule "10,000 mile maintenance checks" to prevent the families and businesses from "breaking down" legally and financially.

This firm has been operating almost 40 years. They have second generation attorneys and are rapidly working on the third generation. The firm is committed to "legal leadership and service through many generations." The firm represents some of the largest families and family businesses in Arizona. Many clients travel from other states for advice in structuring their affairs. They use their case history experience within their firm to give educational seminars throughout the United States. They have developed innovative techniques which speed up and make more comprehensive their legal work: "team consensus planning" (the process of brainstorming with the clients and the entire financial planning team), "legal architecture" (reflecting complex structures with easily understood schematic drawings), and "legal surgery" (maintaining action item lists so no "instruments" are left in the "chest cavity").

The firm of Goodson, Manley, Forakis and Deloughery, PLC has a policy of generously sharing with other professionals in the financial planning field the knowledge they have acquired from their real-life client experimental laboratory."