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Melanie J. Westblade
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Kansas City, MO 64108

Practices
Wealth Strategies
Tax


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Gretchen M. Gold

Experience
Ms. Gold's area of practice is in estate and trust taxation, estate planning, probate and trust administration, probate trust litigation, guardianships, charitable and not-for-profit planning, business succession, and wealth preservation planning.

Ms. Gold provides lifetime financial planning involving special needs of children, spouses, and financial planning related to divorce.  Gretchen assists clients in the preparation of estate planning documents, from Wills and Trusts containing complicated tax and distribution provisions, to Family Limited Partnerships, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Irrevocable Gift Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts, Charitable Remainder Trusts, and many other sophisticated estate planning devices.

Education
  • University of Missouri - Kansas City, J.D., with distinction, 1992
  • Missouri Western State College, B.S., Political Science, 1983
Admissions
  • Missouri, 1992
  • Kansas, 1993
  • Oklahoma, 2001
Honors
  • Order of the Bench and Robe
  • Law Review (Note & Comment Editor)
  • American Jurisprudence Award - Property I and Civil Procedure I
  • The Law Council
Professional Affiliations
  • The Missouri Bar (Member, 1992-present; Vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Legal Assistants, 1995-1998)
  • The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, 1992-present; Probate Trust Committee, 1995-present; Public Service Committee, 1993)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital (Planned Gift Council, 1998-present)
  • The Kansas City Estate Planning Society (Board Member, 2004-present)
  • The Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium (Formerly the Federal Estate Planning Society Symposium), (Planning Committee, 2005-present)
  • Tommy Simone Memorial Scholarship Fund (Committee Member, 1997-2005)
  • Saint Pius X High School (School Board Member, 1996-2002; School Board President, 1999-2001)
  • Saint Pius X High School (Capital Campaign Committee, 1997-2002)
Presentations
  • Distribution of Assets Closing Trust and Estate Administration, The Missouri Bar Annual Estate & Trust Institute, 2002
  • Use of Life Insurance to Solve Tax Problems - Buy-Sell Agreements, University of Missouri-Kansas City Continuing Legal Education, 2000
  • Independent Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City Continuing Legal Education, 1999
  • Terminating Irrevocable Trusts, The Missouri Bar Annual Probate Institute, 1999
  • Independent Administration, The Missouri Bar Annual Probate Institute, 1998
  • Probate, The Missouri Bar Annual Law Update, 1997 and 1998
  • Probate and Estate Administration, University of Missouri, Kansas City Continuing Legal Education, 1996




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