John F. Goodson

Probate, Mediation
The Brookstone Building, 2025 North 3rd Street, Suite 200
Phoenix, Arizona 850041471


Probate

Admitted

1961, Arizona and U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Law School

University of Arizona, J.D., 1961

Law School Graduation Year

1961

College

University of Arizona, B.A., 1953

Memberships

Maricopa County (Member, Sections on: Real Property; Probate and Trust Law; Member: Committee on Economics of Practice of Law, 1970-1993; Committee on Corporate Banking and Business Law, 1978-1993; Chairman, Legal Practice Management Section, 1980-1990), International and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Arizona (Member, Sections on: Real Property; Probate and Trust Law; Member: Committee on Economics of Practice of Law, 1970-1993; Committee on Corporate Banking and Business Law, 1978-1993; Legal Practice Management Section); Central Arizona Estate Planning Council (Chairman, Legal Practice Management Section, 1989-1990).

Biographical

Author: Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Arizona, University of Arizona Press 1970; How to Prepare Living Trusts, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney, Wills, and Law-suit Prevention Documents; Designer of over 1500 blank legal Forms for Lawyers in Arizona and the United States. Continuing Education Presentations: Tax Section of American Bar Associations, How to Use Legal Architecture in Complex Corporate and Estate Situations, State Bar of Arizona; How to Draft Real Property Transfers, How to Draft Legal Documents and Letters, How to Use Procedure Notebooks and Forms Development Notebooks, Filing and Paperwork Procedures in a Law Office, What Every Lawyer Must Know About Estate Planning, Use of Protector Clauses and Other Clauses in Trusts to Protect Against Changing Times, College of Estate Planning: 18 hour Intensive on What Every Lawyer Must Know About Estate Planning to Take Care of His/Her Own Needs, His/Her Clients and to Avoid Collateral Malpractice, 18 hour Intensive, How to Form, Maintain, and Transfer Ownership of a Corporation, 12 hour workshops, Common Mistakes in Estate Planning Documents. Advisory Chairman of the Faculty of College of Estate Planning Attorneys. Chairman, Advisory Board of American Living Trust Institute. Distinguished Fellow, College of Estate Planning Attorneys, 2000. Attorney for Largest Charitable Gifts in Arizona; Fred Harvey Indian Artifacts Collection to the Heard Museum; Herb and Dorothy McLaughlin Photography Collection to Arizona State University. Founding Attorney of over 35 Non-Profit Tax Exempt Corporations.

Military

First Lieut., U.S. Army, 1953-1958, Armored reconnaissance and specialist in escape and evasion