Practice Areas
Education
- Loyola University, Chicago, cum laude, honors program, B.S., 1972
- University of Houston, J.D., cum laude, 1984
Bar Admissions
- Texas
- Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Carole Reed
Shareholder
1200 Smith Street
14th Floor
Houston, TX 77002-4310
TEL: 713.654.9649
FAX: 713.658.2553
With over 20 years experience, Carole Reed maintains an active practice focusing on all aspects of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning for high net worth individuals and families, estate administration and related matters.
Seminars & Presentations
- Desperate Clients: A Selection of Estate, Gift and Income Tax Issues
- A Year of Change? After the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 and Estate Tax Reform
- Estate Planning for the 21st Century: Can You Afford Not To?
- The Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Trusts
- The Tax Relief Act of 2001: How It Affects Your Financial Plan
- Buyer Beware!
- Getting a Good Night's Sleep? Ten Estate Planning Pitfalls to Keep You Up at Night
- What Your Client Should Know About Estate Planning, Including IRS Attacks on Family Limited Partnerships
- Community Property Considerations in Estate Planning
- Estate Planning: Facing Reality Sensibly
- Exempt or Nonexempt -- That Is the Question
- Why You Need a Will and Tax-Planned Wills
- Provisions Affecting Estates and Trusts and the New (and Improved?) Generation-Skipping Tax
- Probate and Estate Administration
- A Will Checklist or How to Review Your Client's Will
- Current Developments in Estate and Gift Tax
- Dependent Administration
- Estate and Gift Taxation - Advanced
- Estate Planning Awareness
- Generation-Skipping Planning
- Former Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center, Estate Planning
- Speaker at various tax institutes and seminars, including Texas society of Certified Public Accountants courses on Estate and Gift Tax, basic and advanced
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law
- State Bar of Texas, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Member, Women Attorneys in Tax and Probate
- Houston Bar Association, Probate, Trust and Estate Section