Explore overlooked trusts—including HEETs, alimony, voting, and blind trusts—and when estate planners should use them to address complex client needs.
ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk is a podcast series featuring ACTEC Fellows and special guests. All speakers are experts in the trust and estate field. Discover the wide range of topics featured in this series.
Explore overlooked trusts—including HEETs, alimony, voting, and blind trusts—and when estate planners should use them to address complex client needs.
Exploring key distinctions in tax and labor law when classifying workers as independent contractors or employees, focusing on FLSA, IRS, and ERISA guidelines.
A law professor outlines using photos in wills to identify specific gifts, possible legal challenges, and best practices for estate planning.
The risks of life insurance-funded redemption agreements, the Connolly v. US case, and safer alternatives like cross-purchase agreements, life insurance LLCs.
Understand the risks of owning a golf cart, especially if minors are allowed to drive, and how to protect clients’ assets from accidents and lawsuits.
Lessons from Huffman v. Commissioner, when a son exercised an option to purchase stock from his parents, ignoring a buy-sell agreement in the family business.
Takeaways from the 2023 Massachusetts divorce case, Jones v. Jones, for parents who support their married children may diminish trust assets in a divorce.