Kansas City, Mo. – January 28, 2026: Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., has welcomed attorney Charli Steed to the law firm.
After joining the firm last summer, Charli focuses her practice in the areas of tax, estate planning, wealth preservation, and general business. Charli helps clients plan for the future by preparing trusts, wills, powers of attorney, non-judicial settlement agreements, and fiduciary litigation documents. She reviews and interprets language in complex trust documents for individual clients. She also assists clients on business matters and commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions.
As regulations and laws evolve, Charli regularly handles a broad range of tax matters involving trusts, partnership issues, gift and estate taxes, IRAs, exempt organization qualification, employment taxes, corporate inversions, and equity funds. For example, she advises and supports numerous tax-exempt organizations on a variety of nonprofit corporate and tax-related issues under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, including issues related to organization, qualification, tax reporting, and general compliance. Charli also advises and supports businesses with the tax-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, and restructurings, along with general business matters.
In addition, Charli assists clients in resolving difficult tax disputes, including disputes with tax authorities pertaining to audits and administrative appeals. Her work in that regard extends to state and local tax matters.
About the Estate & Succession Planning Practice Group: The law firm has an established estate planning practice group and takes care of all of our clients’ estate planning needs, such as drafting wills, trusts and durable powers of attorney. We are dedicated to helping clients avoid the delay and costs of probate by providing expedient alternative methods of transferring assets and wealth, while limiting tax liability and maximizing each estate. The group is also skilled at succession planning for businesses and business owners.
About the Business/Corporate Law Practice Group: The firm’s Business/Corporate Law Group attorneys provide a broad array of corporate and business legal services to clients of all sizes, from entrepreneurial start-up ventures to large, privately-owned companies. The firm’s talented attorneys represent clients throughout Kansas and Missouri regarding the creation, governance, disposition and acquisition of corporations and other forms of business organizations.
About the Payments and Prepaid Instruments Practice Group: The Payments Group of the law firm addresses compliance of prepaid card and payment instrument programs with federal and state regulations with their work over time touching over a trillion dollars of card loads on billions of cards in hundreds of card programs in many countries. The Payments Group’s worldwide practice focuses upon compliance with regulations governing the prepaid card industry, including consumer protection laws, unclaimed property laws, anti-money laundering regulations, licensing requirements, privacy rules, fraud laws, local taxation laws, and GAAP standards.
About the firm:
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