Chamberlain Hrdlicka

Estate & Income Tax Planning & Estate Administration

Senior Counsel

With over 30 years experience, Carole Reed maintains an active practice focusing on all aspects of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning as well as estate administration and related matters.  Her clients include high net worth individuals and families, business owners in the real estate, manufacturing, automotive, construction, retail, chemical, energy, telecommunications, legal, and medical industries, executors, trustees, and estate and trust beneficiaries.

Mrs. Reed handles matters such as wills; planning for incapacity, including powers of attorney, healthcare powers of attorney and directives to physicians; gifting techniques and strategies; life insurance planning; trust planning; generation-skipping planning; succession planning for business owners, including buy-sell agreements; marital property agreements; estate administration and probate; trust administration; preparation and filing of estate, inheritance and gift and generation-skipping transfer tax returns; and representation in transfer tax audits.

Loyola University, Chicago, cum laude, honors program, B.S., 1972

University of Houston, J.D., cum laude, 1984