About Us
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Succession + is a full service consulting and legal firm that focuses on succession planning, estate planning, business formation and consulting. Whether a client needs help setting up a new company, or guidance to ensure one’s legacy is preserved for generations to come, the goal of Succession + is to identify the unique challenges each client is facing and to create solutions to overcome those obstacles. Through teamwork, our clients can focus on pursuing their passions, while ensuring all they have built is protected. At Succession +, we pride ourselves in our flexibility and creative problem solving, and are happy to work with our clients’ other advisors, including other attorneys, accountants, and consultants, to ensure all facets of our client's business and personal well being is covered.
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Bret T. Christiansen, Esq.
Owner
Bret was born in Great Bend, Kansas as the youngest of three children. His father's career in various agricultural cooperative systems took him from Great Bend to Gering, Nebraska, and then to Hiawatha, Kansas, where Bret graduated high school. After graduating high school, Bret attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he earned his Bachelor's Degree before heading to California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. In 2010, Bret obtained his J.D. and graduated with Honors from the "Center for Creative Problem Solving," an academic area of concentration that focuses on acquiring the skills necessary to demand a broader and deeper understanding of people, their specific problems, and the consequences of confronting those problems only in narrow, legalistic ways. Through this curriculum, Bret obtained practical training on how to think more broadly, flexibly, relationally, and preventively when dealing with complex legal matters. He passed the California Bar Exam in 2010 (#272045) and the Kansas Bar Exam in 2011 (#24835). Before starting Succession +, Bret spent five years working in law firm settings and an additional two years in a trust department as a Vice President. He lives in McPherson, Kansas with his wife, Jackie, and their three beautiful children Gentri, Hattie, and Bodie.
Bret was raised in agricultural communities, and as a result, has a deep appreciation for the farmers and ranchers that work hard to feed the world. It is because of this appreciation, and his experience helping clients with their businesses and their families' estates, that Succession + was born. Statistics show that nearly 70% of all family-owned businesses fail to transition from one generation to the next. While this issue isn't exclusive to the agricultural world, it is becoming more difficult to carry on a family farming legacy when fewer children are returning to the farm. By partnering with Succession +, we will work hard to identify the needs each of our clients have in order to develop and then implement a plan to protect everything they have worked so hard to attain.
Owner
Bret was born in Great Bend, Kansas as the youngest of three children. His father's career in various agricultural cooperative systems took him from Great Bend to Gering, Nebraska, and then to Hiawatha, Kansas, where Bret graduated high school. After graduating high school, Bret attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he earned his Bachelor's Degree before heading to California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. In 2010, Bret obtained his J.D. and graduated with Honors from the "Center for Creative Problem Solving," an academic area of concentration that focuses on acquiring the skills necessary to demand a broader and deeper understanding of people, their specific problems, and the consequences of confronting those problems only in narrow, legalistic ways. Through this curriculum, Bret obtained practical training on how to think more broadly, flexibly, relationally, and preventively when dealing with complex legal matters. He passed the California Bar Exam in 2010 (#272045) and the Kansas Bar Exam in 2011 (#24835). Before starting Succession +, Bret spent five years working in law firm settings and an additional two years in a trust department as a Vice President. He lives in McPherson, Kansas with his wife, Jackie, and their three beautiful children Gentri, Hattie, and Bodie.
Bret was raised in agricultural communities, and as a result, has a deep appreciation for the farmers and ranchers that work hard to feed the world. It is because of this appreciation, and his experience helping clients with their businesses and their families' estates, that Succession + was born. Statistics show that nearly 70% of all family-owned businesses fail to transition from one generation to the next. While this issue isn't exclusive to the agricultural world, it is becoming more difficult to carry on a family farming legacy when fewer children are returning to the farm. By partnering with Succession +, we will work hard to identify the needs each of our clients have in order to develop and then implement a plan to protect everything they have worked so hard to attain.
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