Substantive Trust and Estate Information
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation is a nonprofit focused on providing trust, estate and tax learning for professionals, families and law students.
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ACTEC Foundation News
Voices of The ACTEC Foundation: Student Writing Competition
Learn how winning first place in the Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition impacted this student’s career in trust and estate law.
Latest Podcast
How DNA Testing is Shaking Up Estate Plans | DNA Testing for Inheritance
A discussion of the impact of DNA testing on inheritance, intestacy laws, surrogacy, and use of frozen embryos postmortem.
Latest Video
What is Community Property?
Understand what community property is, how it affects assets such as a home or a business, what is quasi-community property and more.
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Our commitment to funding legal education initiatives for law students, including the Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition.
ACTEC Foundation
Our mission is to support scholarships to improve the law and by encouraging life-long learning. Our Fellows engage through programs which serve the community.
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Our Impact
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation was created in 1982 to support life-long learning in the areas of trust, estate, tax, and estate planning. Since 2008, 1.3 million dollars in grants have been distributed.