Nikki Pielop has dedicated her legal career to advising individuals and families as they anticipate and navigate life’s transitions. She helps clients reframe uncertainty as an opportunity to identify and balance competing objectives, including wealth preservation, tax efficiency, flexibility, and charitable goals. Tailoring solutions to each client’s individual needs, Nikki helps families design structures that encourage good stewardship by future generations, provide guardrails when appropriate, minimize potential conflicts, and include tools for resolution should disputes arise.
Nikki’s estate planning practice focuses on the preparation of traditional wills, revocable trusts, and powers of attorney; structuring business succession; leveraged gifting strategies including family limited partnerships and sales to grantor trusts; marital property characterization issues; and structuring charitable gifts. She also represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in complex estate administrations and advises on income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax matters, including the preparation of federal estate and gift tax returns.
Nikki began her estate planning career in the private clients section of a large Houston law firm. She subsequently practiced for many years at a boutique law firm in Houston before joining Gyeszly + Prangner in 2023.
Prior to law school, Nikki served as a corps member and staff member for Teach For America.
Nikki Pielop has dedicated her legal career to advising individuals and families as they anticipate and navigate life’s transitions. She helps clients reframe uncertainty as an opportunity to identify and balance competing objectives, including wealth preservation, tax efficiency, flexibility, and charitable goals. Tailoring solutions to each client’s individual needs, Nikki helps families design structures that encourage good stewardship by future generations, provide guardrails when appropriate, minimize potential conflicts, and include tools for resolution should disputes arise.
Nikki’s estate planning practice focuses on the preparation of traditional wills, revocable trusts, and powers of attorney; structuring business succession; leveraged gifting strategies including family limited partnerships and sales to grantor trusts; marital property characterization issues; and structuring charitable gifts. She also represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in complex estate administrations and advises on income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax matters, including the preparation of federal estate and gift tax returns.
Nikki began her estate planning career in the private clients section of a large Houston law firm. She subsequently practiced for many years at a boutique law firm in Houston before joining Gyeszly + Prangner in 2023.
Prior to law school, Nikki served as a corps member and staff member for Teach For America.