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Attorney JEANNETTE SMITH TYSINGER

Jeannette
Smith
Tysinger

  • Of Counsel
  • Estate Planning
  • Administration & Litigation
  • Tax and Asset Protection Planning
  • Business and Nonprofit Formation, Dissolution, and Transactions
  • Real Estate

Biography

Jeannette Smith Tysinger started her legal career with a title company in Birmingham, Alabama, working with residential and commercial lending institutions. After moving back to Tennessee and becoming licensed in Tennessee, her practice quickly evolved to include more complex real estate matters, corporate and business matters, nonprofit organization matters, tax-exempt status, and estate planning and administration. Ms. Tysinger worked with an estate and tax planning and business law boutique firm prior to coming to Hunter, Smith & Davis, LLP in 2011.

Ms. Tysinger has worked extensively in providing guidance in start-up, tax and employment compliance, non-SEC mergers and acquisitions, and business succession and termination issues for small and medium-sized businesses. Her current practice also emphasizes estate planning for individuals and families planning for their future retirement, including revocable and irrevocable trusts, specialized trusts, such as supplemental needs trusts and pet trusts, asset protection trusts, and/or trusts, for charitable endowments or scholarships. Ms. Tysinger has a background in tax and business, along with her legal education, with a degree in accounting and a master’s in business administration.

Practice Areas

  • Estate Planning
  • Administration & Litigation
  • Tax and Asset Protection Planning
  • Business and Nonprofit Formation, Dissolution, and Transactions
  • Real Estate

Education

  • Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
    • J.D. - 1996
  • East Tennessee State University
    • M.B.A. - 2003
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
    • B.B.A., Bachelor of Business Administration - 1992
    • Major: Accounting

Presentations & Publications

  • NBI, “Estate Planning from Start to Finish” – Johnson City, Tennessee – June 2014
  • TBA, Tax Law Forum 2018, “Non-Profits And Reporting Requirements,” Nashville, Tennessee – September 2018
  • "Wayfair & You (Sales Tax and the New Economic Nexus)," HSD Newsletter, January 2019
  • Various immigration social media publications
  • Various estate planning, immigration, and business entity lectures and informational programming on behalf of several local businesses and nonprofits for their clients and customers

Professional & Civic Involvement

  • Tennessee Bar Association, Member – 1996 to present
    • – Executive Board Member of the TBA Tax Section
  • Washington County Bar Association, Member – 1996 to present
  • Tri-Cities Estate Planning Council, Member and Former Board Member – 2004 to present
  • Zeta Tau Alpha Women’s Fraternity, Lambda Kappa Chapter, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina – Financial Advisor – 2011 to 2023
  • Tri-Cities, TN, Zeta Tau Alpha Alumni Chapter – former President, Vice-President and MSABC Liaison for American Cancer Society and Tennessee Zeta Day Co-Chair – 2007 to 2024
  • Holston Habitat for Humanity – Board Member & Financial Committee Member – February 2017 to February 2022

Admissions

  • Tennessee, 1996