Arielle M. Prangner
Gyeszly Prangner, PLLC
2617 Bissonnet Street, Suite 211
Houston, TX 77005
713.574.1364
EDUCATION:
The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
· J.D., with Honors, 2008
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
· B.S., Special Education, summa cum laude, 2005
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, HONORS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
· Admitted to Practice: State Bar of Texas; United States Tax Court
· Fellow, The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
· Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
· Texas Super Lawyer (2023); Texas Rising Star, Estate Planning & Probate (2017-2022), Up-and-Coming 50 Women
(2020-2022); Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers Magazine
· Member, Business Planning Committee, Fiduciary Income Tax Committee (ACTEC) (2023-present)
· Member, Probate Forms Task Force, appointment by the Supreme Court of Texas (2016-present)
· Member, Council of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section (REPTL), State Bar of Texas (2020-present)
· Chair, Decedents' Estates Committee, Real Estate, Probate & Trust Section of the State Bar of Texas (REPTL) (2022-
present); Co-Chair (2021-2022)
· Chair, Decedents' Estates Committee, Texas Real Estate and Probate Institute (T-REP) (2022-present)
· Member, Council of the Probate, Trusts and Estates Section, Houston Bar Association (2020-present)
· Member, College of the State Bar of Texas, State Bar of Texas (Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section and Tax
Section),
· Member, Houston Estate Planner's Association
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Gyeszly Prangner, PLLC, Houston, Texas
· Member, October 2022 – present
Davis & Willms, PLLC, Houston, Texas
· Associate Attorney, April 2011 – October 2022
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
· Associate Attorney, September 2008 – April 2011
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:
· 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 28
th
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
· Author/Speaker: Life Insurance 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
· Author/Panelist: Taking Stock- A Guide to Probate and Guardianship Inventories, South Texas College of Law Wills & Probate
Institute, 2009
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
· The Junior League of Houston, Inc. (Member, 2009 – 2021; Sustaining Member 2021 – present)
· Houston Alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta (Member, 2009 – present; Recruitment Board Member 2012 – 2013)
