Managing attorney
Chris Brock
Chris Brock is Managing Attorney of CCDC Probate Power. Prior to joining CCDC, Chris worked as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Bruce Jones in Denver District Court and as a Dean's Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School. He is admitted to the Colorado Bar and is a member of the Colorado and Arapahoe County Bar Associations, where he belongs to the Trust and Estate and Elder Law Sections. Chris focuses his practice in the areas of special needs planning, estate planning, and probate administration. A paraplegic since college, Chris understands firsthand the issues that come with living with a disability. He now devotes his legal practice to ensuring families and individuals with disabilities carefully plan for the future.
Education
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL
Juris Doctor, 2014MIAMI UNIVERSITY
B.A., Political Science, 2009 B.A., American Studies, 2009
Activities & Affiliations
Colorado Bar Association, Elder Law Section, Trust and Estate Section, Member
Arapahoe County Bar Association, Member
JFK Partners Advisory Council, Member
Colorado Fund for People with Disabilities Board of Directors, Member
Colorado Wheelchair Lacrosse Foundation Board of Directors, Vice President
Bar Admission
Colorado
History
For more than 25 years, Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) has been the leader in promoting sound public policy that benefits people with all types of disabilities. CCDC is a nonprofit member-driven organization (2,000+ members statewide) whose mission is to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities. CCDC defends against discrimination, abuse, and neglect, and supports people with disabilities to be contributing and engaged members of society.
Probate Power is CCDC's social enterprise legal program. As part of its mission to advocate for and support people with disabilities, CCDC created Probate Power to provide special needs planning, estate planning, probate administration, and Social Security Disability services directly to the Colorado disability community.
Probate Power’s purpose is twofold: 1) to provide high-quality special needs planning, estate planning, and probate administration services to the Colorado disability community and other non-disabled clients and 2) to provide a revenue stream for CCDC, allowing the nonprofit organization to expand its other services to benefit more Coloradans with disabilities.
Probate Power focuses exclusively on special needs planning, estate planning, and probate administration services. These services include, but are not limited to, simple and complex wills, special needs trusts, revocable living trusts, financial power of attorney documents, uncontested guardianships/conservatorships, ABLE accounts, and advanced medical directives. Probate Power was founded on the premise that everyone, especially the Colorado disability community, deserves high-quality, practical, and affordable legal representation.