Rebecca is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice areas include estate planning, estate administration, trust administration, and corporate law. Rebecca is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”). Fellows of ACTEC are leading members of the trust and estate profession who have made substantial contributions to and demonstrated exceptional skill in the field of trusts and estates. Rebecca is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Rebecca received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 and received her J.D. from Wake Forest University in 2002, graduating cum laude.
Rebecca is on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Bar Foundation and the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association. Rebecca is also a member of the Legislative Committee of the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, and is the past chair of the Section, having served in various leadership roles prior to that. She is also a past president of the Estate Planning Council of Winston-Salem. Rebecca is a member of the Forsyth County Bar Association and the Forsyth County Women Attorneys Association. She maintains involvement with the Community Philanthropy Builders with the Winston-Salem Foundation.
Rebecca enjoys playing golf, reading science fiction novels, and traveling.
A partner in Womble Bond Dickinson’s Private Wealth Sector, Carl King helps clients achieve their family, financial, and estate planning goals while minimizing potential estate, gift, and income tax liabilities. He also represents foundations and public charities as an ongoing part of his practice.
Carl has extensive experience implementing intergenerational wealth transfers using charitable entities, closely held business interests, and life insurance strategies. He has drafted and implemented hundreds of complex gift and estate tax strategies, including generation-skipping trusts, family limited liability companies, installment sales to grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATS), and various charitable entities.
Carl provides regular legal counsel to trusts and estates, advising them on sophisticated tax-saving opportunities, including disclaimers, tax elections and allocations, and other related matters, and defends them in gift and estate tax audits. He also provides legal defense for trusts and estates facing substantial claims from creditors or disgruntled beneficiaries and, conversely, helps beneficiaries and other constituents protect and enforce their claims against estates and trusts.
Carl is an active member of the legal community, both in North Carolina and more broadly across the U.S. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Individual and Fiduciary Income Tax Committee and a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), serving on its Fiduciary Tax Committee. He also holds leadership positions in the North Carolina Bar Association's Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section Council, including Section Ethics Chair and Section Liaison to the North Carolina Banker’s Association.
A frequent speaker and author on trusts and estates issues, Carl taught the Valuation Class at the University of Miami School of Law as an adjunct professor. In recent years, Carl’s most rewarding professional work has included co-authoring the ACTEC’s amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the U.S. in the Kaestner fiduciary income tax case; counseling families of all generations during the creation and growth of family offices; and providing legal advice on some of the largest charitable gifts in North Carolina’s history.
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Carter Webb and speaker Jennifer McEwen at the 2025 Professional Seminar.
Thank you to everyone who attended and supported our 2025 Professional Seminar.
Sponsorships from professional firms enable us to keep attendee costs reasonable while providing dynamic speakers, comfortable venue, refreshments, and three hours of continuing education credit.
Beacon Pointe Advisors | Begley Law Firm, P.A. | Black & Associates, LLC | Boys Arnold Wealth Management | Colton Groome Financial | DMJPS PLLC | First Citizens Bank | The Forest Law Group | Forvis Mazars | Garlock & McKinney, P.C. | Gilreath Shealy Law, PLLC | Gould Killian CPA Group, P.A. / Altamont Capital Management, L.L.C. | HomeTrust Bank | Kenneth Youngblood, Attorney | McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A. | Prager Metis CPAs | Roberts & Stevens, P.A. | The Van Winkle Law Firm | Ward and Smith, P.A.
