Donald Friend, Attorney

Donald Friend II is the founding member of Friend & Associates, LLC, a boutique tax, estate and business planning law firm located in Prairie Village, Kansas.  Previously he was a member at Friend Cooper, LLC and prior to that was a partner with Husch & Eppenberger, LLC in Kansas City, Missouri.  Donald represents clients in the areas of estate and trust taxation, estate planning, probate and trust administration, charitable and not-for-profit planning and business succession.  Donald has extensive experience regarding analysis and recommendations on complex estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, including development of complex estate plans.  He also advises clients on various partnership and real estate tax matters.

In his free time, Donald enjoys traveling with his wife and sons.  He also enjoys watching his kids play sports.  When he is not at his kids’ games, you can find him watching his favorite teams, the Kansas Jayhawks or the Kansas City Royals. 

EDUCATION

  • LL.M., Taxation, University of Florida College of Law (1996).
  • J.D., University of Kansas School of Law (1992), Member of Advisory Committee for Legal Services for Students.
  • B.S., Business Administration with emphasis in Economics, University of Kansas (1988), Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
     

ADMISSIONS

Kansas, 1992; Missouri, 2000.
 

LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS

Kansas Bar Association; The Missouri Bar; Kansas City Estate Planning Society.
 

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

Mid-America Planned Giving Council; Donald Chisholm Planned Giving Council; Kansas City Arts Coalition
 

SERVICE ON COMMITTEES

Heart of America, Tax Institute, Planning Committee; Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium Committee; Westwood View Educational Fund, Advisory Board Member

Speaking Engagements

  • “Estate Planning Fundamentals”, sponsored by UMKC, School of Law, and KCMBA, “Importance of Trust Funding” (October, 2013 and September, 2014)
  • “Trusts 101, sponsored by NBI, Inc., “Grantor Trusts” (May, 2014 and November, 2011)
  • “Gift and Inheritance Tax Procedure and Strategy”, sponsored by NBI, Inc. (2010)
  • “Sophisticated Estate Planning Strategies”, sponsored by NBI, Inc.,
  • “Estate Planning Basics”, sponsored by NBI, Inc., “Estate Planning Issues Relating to Capacity, Powers of Attorney, Asset Protection Trusts” (2008)
  • “University of Missouri-10th Annual Kansas City Estate Planning Internship,” with Stanley Burnstein, 1031 Issues in the Estate Plan (2003);
  • “15-Hour Review of the Law”, sponsored by UMKC, School of Law, “What’s Hot In Tax” (2001);
  • Co-Teacher – UMKC Law School, “Fiduciary Income Taxation of Trust and Estates” (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005).