Jeff Williams-Tracy

Jeff Williams-Tracy is an attorney at Fletcher, Tydings, Williams-Tracy & Gott in North Carolina. His practice covers family formation, including assisted reproduction, gestational surrogacy, and adoption, along with wills and estates, surplus funds, landlord representation, and creditors’ rights. He helps clients address parentage questions and financial or property-related legal concerns. His experience also includes jury trials and arguments before the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Jeff earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1994. At UNC, he received the Ferebee Taylor Chancellor’s Award. His legal training provided a foundation for advocacy and the preparation of agreements that define responsibilities, including estate documents and the arrangements used in assisted reproduction and family formation matters.

Jeff drafts and reviews gestational parenting agreements and assists domestic and international families in obtaining parentage orders. He also advises families about wills and estates, helps people seek surplus funds held by a clerk following foreclosure, and serves as a substitute trustee in delinquent real property matters. His legal work draws on courtroom, property, and family formation experience to address matters that can involve sensitive personal or financial interests.

Jeff Williams-Tracy was the first surrogacy attorney in North Carolina to successfully petition state Vital Records to record two fathers on a birth certificate. He has spoken on family formation before the American Bar Association Family Section and the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. Admitted in North Carolina and federal district courts in the state, he combines experience in developing family formation law with ongoing representation in estate and creditors’ rights matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Fletcher, Tydings, Williams-Tracy & Gott, PLLC
• Member, The North Carolina State Bar
• Scoutmaster and Cubmaster, Boy Scouts of America
• Member, Order of the Golden Fleece, UNC

Licensed State

• North Carolina

Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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