Legal Services

J. Robert Parke, Esq. is a sole practitioner doing business as the Law Office of J. Robert Parke. Mr. Parke is a graduate of the University of Nevada and the McGeorge School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Nevada and the State Bar of California, received his license as a certified public accountant from the State of California and is admitted to practice in the United States Tax Court. Mr. Parke is a member of the Washoe County Bar Association, the American Bar Association (tax, real property, probate and trust sections) and the Estate Planning Council of Reno, Nevada. Mr Parke practices primarily in the areas of estate planning, trusts and estates, taxation and general business law. Some of the services related to these areas of practice are as follows:

Estate Planning

• Estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
  
  
• Wills
  
  
• Trusts:
• Revocable living trusts
• Irrevocable asset protection trusts
• Irrevocable life insurance trusts
• Grantor retained annuity trusts
• Grantor retained unitrusts
• Qualified personal residence trusts
• Charitable trusts
• Irrevocable trusts to provide for the education of children
• Irrevocable trusts for lifetime gifts to children
  
  
• Durable Powers of Attorney:
• Property management
• Health care decisions
  
  
• Living Wills (directives to physicians)
  
  
• Family Limited Partnerships (and limited liability companies)
  
  
• Family Business Succession Planning
  
  
• Lifetime Gift Planning:
• Outright gifts
• Trusts
• Gifts to children under the Uniform Gift to Minor's Act (UGMA)
• Gifts to charity
• Outright lifetime and testamentary gifts
• Charitable foundations
• Retirement Benefits Planning
• Planning for the use and distribution of IRAs and qualified retirement plans

Decedent's Estates

• Probate
• Trust settlement and administration

Guardianships

• Establishment and administration

Business Law

• Corporations
• Partnerships
• Limited liability companies
• Resident agent services
• Mergers, purchases and sales of businesses
• General business transactions and contracts
• Stock redemption agreements
• Stock purchase agreements
• Stockholder stock transfer restrictions and buy-out agreements
• Employment agreements
• Employee non-qualified deferred compensation plans
• Incentive bonus plans
• Stock option plans
• Phantom stock plans
• Stock appreciation rights
• Equity participation rights
• Independent contractor and consultant agreements
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
• Trade name and trademark registrations

Property

• Real estate purchase and sale agreements
• Deeds
• Promissory notes and deeds of trust
• Leases
• Section 1031 exchanges (like-kind, tax-deferred exchanges of property)
• Co-ownership agreements
• Premarital agreements

Taxation

• Income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
• Income tax return preparation and review
• Estate tax return preparation and review
• Gift tax return preparation and review
• Representation in tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, the Nevada Department of Taxation and the California Franchise Tax Board.