Greenville & Clemson Estate Planning Attorney

JACKSON E. (PETE) FIELDS, JR.

Jackson E. (Pete) Fields, Jr. is a well known estate and retirement planning tax attorney in South Carolina. His estate and retirement planning workshops have been widely attended by retirees around the state, and especially in the South Carolina Upstate. Pete has concentrated his estate and financial practice on helping well over 1,000 retirees arrange their legal and financial matters to avoid mistakes with their assets and money to protect their capital from taxes and nursing home confinement, and increase their income.

Pete graduated from Clemson University with a B.A. in Economics. He was awarded his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of South Carolina and his Masters of Law and Taxation Degree from the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He has made numerous presentations on estate planning, employee benefits, retirement planning and other tax topics to his workshop attendees, other attorneys, CPAs, and financial professionals around the country.

In 1973, Pete was admitted to practice before all the Courts in South Carolina, and subsequently the United States District Court in South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Tax Court. Pete is a member of the South Carolina Bar where he is a member of the Tax Section and the Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Section.

Pete served several years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as an Assistant Attorney General with the Tax Division of the South Carolina Attorney General's Office. He is a Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army Reserves. Pete lives with his wife, Arden, in Clemson, and they have two daughters.

Arden McCullough Fields, Attorney at Law

Arden McCullough Fields is Pete’s eldest daughter and better known as “Culla.” Arden McCullough received her B.A. in English from the College of Charleston and finished law school with honors from The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan. She has worked for The Fields Law Firm since 2000. She has returned to South Carolina to practice Elder Law with her father and is currently managing the Greenville office.

She is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Arden Perry Fields, Office Manager

Arden Perry Fields is the office manager or better known as “The Boss.” Arden worked for 18 years as a history teacher before retiring and managing The Fields Law Firm in Clemson, South Carolina. She received her B.A. from Meredith College, in Raleigh, North Carolina and her M.Ed. in Secondary Guidance and Counseling. Arden is a native of Chesterfield, South Carolina.