Arielle Prangner

Arielle Prangner is an experienced attorney whose practice is focused on advising clients as they prepare for and maneuver through life’s transitions. Arielle collaborates closely with individuals, families, closely-held family businesses, charitable organizations, and family offices to craft tailored, tax efficient solutions that align with each client’s values and priorities while being mindful of family relationships and tolerance for complexity.

Her practice focuses on estate planning, including the design, implementation, and administration of comprehensive wealth preservation and transfer strategies, complex trust and estate matters, business succession planning, charitable giving and exempt organizations, and marital property issues. She also advises clients on a spectrum of related issues, including income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and assists in the preparation of federal gift tax returns and estate tax returns.

Arielle began her career in the estate planning section of a large Houston law firm. She subsequently practiced with a boutique estate planning firm in Houston prior to forming Gyeszly + Prangner.

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Speaker/Author: Unconventional Gifting: Unusual Assets, Unusual Donees, and Unusual Methods, State Bar of Texas 47th Annual Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course, 2023
• Panelist: Preparing Gift Tax Returns: Collected Views and Perspectives, State Bar of Texas 28th Annual Advanced Estate Planning Strategies Course, 2022
• Speaker: Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates, The Center for American and International Law Annual Short Course on Estate Planning, 2022
• Speaker/Author: Just a Will Won’t Cut It: Planning for the Transfer of Non-Probate Assets at Death, San Antonio Estate Planners Council, January 2022; 14 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. at 57 (Fall 2021); Estate Planning Council of Central Texas, 2021; State Bar of Texas 45th Annual Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course, 2021
• Speaker/Author: Press Zero to Speak with a Representative: Dealing with Financial Institutions and Other Third Parties in Estate Administrations and Otherwise, State Bar of Texas 32nd Annual Estate Planning & Probate Drafting Course, 2021
• Speaker/Author: Lighting the Way to the Exit: Drafting to Facilitate Terminating Distributions by Fiduciaries, Thompson Reuters Estate Planning at 20 (October 2021); State Bar of Texas 30th Annual Estate Planning & Probate Drafting Course, 2019; 65th Annual Taxation Conference and 2017 Stanley M. Johanson Estate Planning Workshop, 2017; Disability and Elder Law Attorneys Association (DELAA), 2016; State Bar of Texas 27th Annual Estate Planning & Probate Drafting Course, 2016
• Speaker/Author: Implications of Termination of Grantor Trust Status, 13 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. at 443 (Spring 2021); State Bar of Texas 44th Annual Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course, 2020
• Panelist/Author: Forms from Around the State, State Bar of Texas 31st Annual Estate Planning & Probate Drafting Course, 2020
• Speaker: Ten Things Every Estate Planner Needs to Know about Subchapter J, State Bar of Texas Tax Section Tax Law in a Day, 2020
• Speaker/Author: Getting to the Series Finale: Distributions of Estate Assets and Funding Testamentary Trusts, State Bar of Texas 43rd Annual Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course, 2019
• Panelist: Estate Planning 101 for Gift Planners- Everything You Want to Know but are Afraid to Ask; Charitable Gift Planners of Houston, 2018
• Speaker: Death and Probate: Selected End-of-Life Issues, Texas Bar College 19th Annual Summer School, 2017
• Panelist: Mediating Contested Probate and Trust Disputes, State Bar of Texas 41st Annual Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course, 2017
• Speaker: Estate Planning and Probate Basics, Texas Bar College 18th Annual Sumer School, 2016
• Speaker/Author: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out: Funding Agreements, Receipts and Releases, and All That Jazz, Houston Bar Association’s Probate, Trusts and Estates Section, 2016; Austin Bar Association’s Estate and Probate Section, 2016; Attorneys in Tax and Probate, 2015; State Bar of Texas 26th Annual Estate Planning & Probate Drafting Course, 2015
• Speaker/Author: Nuts and Bolts: Planning for the Transfer of Non-Probate Assets at Death, South Texas College of Law 29th Annual Wills and Probate Institute, 2014; University of Texas 16th Annual Estate Planning, Guardianship, and Elder Law Conference, 2014
• Speaker: The Brave New World of Estate Planning, Houston CPA Society 2014 Spring Accounting Expo, 2014
• Speaker: Where to Begin? – An Overview of Trusts and Business Structure Choice and Conversion, National Business Institute, Estate Planning from A to Z, 2013
• Co-Author/Speaker: An Overview of the Probate Process, National Business Institute, The Probate Process from Start to Finish, 2013, 2010
• Speaker: Estate Planning Basics, Houston Bar Association, 2013
• Co-Author/Panelist: Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, State Bar of Texas Intermediate Estate Planning and Probate Course, 2012
• Author/Speaker: Where to Begin? An Overview of Trusts, National Business Institute, Trusts 101, 2011
• Panelist: Twilight Planning: Using Advanced Techniques to Plan for Incapacity, Houston Bar Association’s Probate, Trusts and Estates Section, 2011
• Author/Speaker: Life Insurance Trusts, Texas Bankers Association, Texas Trust Administration Forum, 2011, 2010; National Business Institute, Trusts 101, 2011
• Author/Panelist: Taking Stock- A Guide to Probate and Guardianship Inventories, South Texas College of Law Wills & Probate Institute, 2009