404-843-1956

Education

  • Emory University School of Law, Juris Doctor, with distinction, 1981
  • University of Georgia School of Law, 1978-1979
  • University of Georgia College of Arts and Sciences, B.A., 1974

Bar Admissions

  • All trial courts in Georgia
  • Court of Appeals of Georgia
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
  • United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 11th Circuits

Memberships

  • State Bar of Georgia Fiduciary Law and Taxation Sections 
  • Atlanta Estate Planning Council

Awards and Honors

  • Order of the Coif
  • Georgia Super Lawyers (2012 – 2024)
  • AV® Preeminent™ rating by Martindale-Hubbell 
  • Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine
Donald B. DeLoach
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7.6Donald B. Deloach

Donald B. DeLoach

Partner

Donald B. DeLoach joined Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach as a partner on July 1, 2013, after many years at his own firm, Frantz & DeLoach, LLP. Don has nearly forty years of experience specializing in:

  • Estate planning, including gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax planning and wealth preservation
  • Preparation of Wills and Trusts
  • Probate and trust and estate administration
  • Business and non-profit entity creation, structuring, and planning
  • Providing legal counsel to closely held businesses and nonprofit organizations in corporate governance and management

Don is a native of Augusta, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree from the University of Georgia in 1974. He attended the University of Georgia School of Law in 1978, and while there received the American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure. Don transferred to Emory University School of Law in his second year to live with his wife, who worked in Atlanta. While at Emory, Don was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Trusts and Estates, graduated with distinction in 1981, and was admitted as a member of the prestigious Order of the Coif.

Don and his wife Shellie live in Roswell, where Don serves as an elder at Tapestry Community Church.  They have three adult children and four grandchildren.   Don’s primary interests outside the office are family activities, theology, cycling, and guitar.

Practice Areas

  • Estate and Trust Planning, Probate, & Administration
  • Corporate Law