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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
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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