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Reta Juiliano
(816) 460-5444

2345 Grand Blvd.
Suite 2800
Kansas City, MO 64108

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Wealth Strategies
Tax & Employee Benefits


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Ruth J. Brackney

Experience
Ms. Brackney prepares analysis and recommendations on sophisticated estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, including development of complex estate plans, preparation of estate planning documents, estate and gift tax returns, and administration of estates, trusts, and family limited partnerships.  She provides lifetime financial planning involving special needs of children and spouses, and financial planning related to divorce.  Ms. Brackney represents estate and trust clients in federal estate tax audits.  She forms and administers charitable entities including private foundations, charitable lead trusts and charitable remainder trusts.  Ms. Brackney provides life insurance planning and planning with retirement assets. 

Ms. Brackney's prior experience includes working in the Tax & Estate Planning Practice Group at Husch & Eppenberger.  She was also an auditor with the Resolution Trust Corporation - Office of Inspector General in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ms. Brackney is a Certified Public Accountant.

Education
  • University of Missouri - Kansas City, LL.M. Taxation, 1998
  • University of Missouri - Kansas City, J.D., with distinction, 1997
  • University of Illinois, B.S., Accounting, high honors, 1992
Admissions
  • Missouri, 1997
  • Kansas, 1998
Honors
  • Order of the Bench and Robe
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Spring 1997 Edition
  • The Urban Lawyer, Articles Editor
  • Emissaries, Secretary
  • Phi Alpha Delta, Treasurer
  • Phi Kappa Phi
Professional Affiliations
  • The Missouri Bar
  • Kansas Bar Association
  • Estate Planning Society of Kansas City (Member)
  • Kansas Elder Hotline (Volunteer)
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City Graduate Tax Law Foundation (Board of Directors)
Presentations
  • Co-taught, Estate Planning and Drafting, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2001-2002




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