Estates & Trusts

Past 12 Months

From the program: Estate Planning Institute (43rd Annual)

Released on: Sep. 25, 2012

The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of2010, which was enacted on December 17, 2010, completely changed the landscape regarding federal estate taxes, gift taxes and generation- skipping transfer taxes, but these tax law changes are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2012. In addition, President's Obama's budget for the government's fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 contains major proposals for transfer ...

Published: November 2012

Published: November 2012

Recorded on: Feb. 6, 2013

Taken from the briefing American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012: Permanency at Last? recorded February, 2013. On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, and President Obama signed the Act into law on January 2, 2013. Sanford (“Sandy”) J. Schlesinger, the founding partner of Schlesinger Gannon & Lazetera LLP, will discuss the transfer tax aspects of the Act. Lecture Topics  [Total ...

From the program: Elder Law Institute (25th Annual)

Released on: May. 1, 2013

The 25th Annual Elder Law Institute presents current legal topics that are of importance to your older clients, and all your younger clients with aging parents. Many of the subjects covered this year focus on planning for incapacity, paying for health care, and maintaining the legal autonomy and dignity of your aging clients. The subject of elder law is becoming a part of every practice - we cannot stop the aging process, nor the reality that ...

From the program: International Estate & Tax Planning 2013

Released on: May. 7, 2013

Individuals with connections to more than one country - international private clients - need sophisticated succession and tax planning advisors to help them navigate a complex and sometimes treacherous legal, tax and regulatory environment. These clients include U.S. persons with assets or beneficiaries outside the United States, as well as non-U.S. persons with U.S. connections. Their advisors must view a client’s specific circumstances ...

From the program: New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon 2013

Recorded on: May. 29, 2013

This program contains 4 NJ NA categories for 6.5 hours. They are 1.2 credits of New Jersey Basic Estate Planning (NA2) , 2.9 credits of Civil Trial Practice – The Trial  (NA3), 1.2 credits of New Jersey Real Estate Closing Procedures (NA5), and 1.2 credits of New Jersey Trust and Business Accounting (NA6).Taken from the Web Program New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon 2013 recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:02:53]New Jersey Basic ...

Recorded on: May. 29, 2013

LAN HOANG: We're going to go right into our next section, which is "New Jersey Basic Estate Planning." For this, our speaker is Christopher Rohde. He's a partner at the Prio, Zinna firm in New Jersey. Chris' focus specializes in elder law, including Medicaid and asset protection planning and assisting clients with Medicaid application process and qualification for long-term care. Chris is also a certified public accountant, a CPA, and specializes ...

From the program: End-of-Life Planning for the Low-Income Client (Free)

Released on: Jul. 12, 2013

End of Life Planning is, like Death and Taxes, one of those things that can go from an easy, informative and straightforward conversation to a drawn-out nightmare if ignored. Low income and very low-income clients, unlike the average middle class client, frequently do not understand the importance of, for example, having identified caretakers for their minor children in place. They frequently resort to “no planning” or improvised planning which does ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

Taken from the briefing Supreme Court, DOMA and Proposition 8: Implications for the Future recorded July, 2013.In United States v. Windsor the Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and inHollingsworth v. Perry the Court dismissed an appeal defending California's Proposition 8.Please listen to Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine ...