PRACTICE AREAS

Wealth Planning/Administration

Lynn Deal Cockle has over 20 years of experience in the areas of estate planning and administration; and tax, estate & business planning. She has assisted clients in the creation of irrevocable life insurance trusts, revocable trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney and other estate planning documents; assisted in charitable and gift planning including the creation of charitable lead trusts, charitable remainder trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and qualified personal residence trusts; has participated in generation-skipping planning; asset protection planning and other sophisticated planning techniques.

Ms. Cockle has also prepared fiduciary income tax returns and gift and estate tax returns; assisted in post death administration including administration of probate estates, funding and administration of trusts, and planning for and preparing disclaimers. Ms. Cockle is a member of the Missouri Bar and has taught the estate and gift tax course at the University of Kansas School of Law when a member of the faculty was on sabbatical.

COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT

The Missouri Bar

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

1985

Lecturer at the University of Kansas on "Estate and Gift Tax"

EDUCATION

J.D., University of Kansas School of Law, 1981, Order of the Coif; University of Kansas Law Review (1980-81)

B.S., University of Kansas, 1976

BAR ADMISSIONS

Missouri, 1981