Ashley Kraus

Ashley Kraus is an associate attorney in Goosmann Law Firm’s Trusts & Estates practice in Omaha. She joined the firm in October 2025 and helps individuals, families, and business owners with personalized estate planning, probate administration, and wealth-transfer strategies. Her work includes advanced trust design, corporate restructuring, federal estate tax considerations, charitable giving, irrevocable trusts, and multigenerational legacy planning, with attention to how ownership and tax issues affect long-term family and business objectives.

Kraus earned a J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 2019, where she served as a staff writer for The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Law, Politics & Society from Doane University in 2015. Her education supports estate and trust work that requires careful legal drafting, tax awareness, analysis of ownership structures, and communication about complex planning choices.

Kraus practiced in Texas before joining Goosmann, handling matters that included real estate, guardianships, and family law litigation. Her current trusts and estates work draws on that broader background when planning involves property, family dynamics, business entities, or court-supervised administration. She assists clients with probate, trust design, charitable giving, estate tax planning, and corporate restructuring, helping organize strategies for asset transfer and administration across generations and changing family or business circumstances.

Ashley Kraus is admitted in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Texas and brings multi-jurisdictional experience to estate planning and administration. She works with clients to translate family, tax, charitable, and business goals into coordinated legal structures, while also assisting when an estate must be administered after death. Her combination of estate planning, probate, real estate, guardianship, and litigation experience supports practical counseling on wealth transfer, fiduciary responsibilities, ownership planning, and long-term legacy objectives.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Goosmann Law
• Member, Nebraska State Bar Association
• Member, State Bar of South Dakota
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Former Council Member, State Bar of Texas Animal Law Section
• Founder & President, St. Mary’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Volunteer Diver, Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium

Licensed State

• Nebraska
• South Dakota
• Texas

Education

• St. Mary’s University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Doane University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science and Law, Politics & Society

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