Legal recommendations for estate planners handling clients with diminishing capacity, including ethical considerations, POAs, trust planning, and more.
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Experts Provide Best Practice Advice on Trust and Estate Administration
ACTEC Fellows share their expertise with professionals on trust administration and ongoing estate management. Discover more about best business practices, effective communication with trustees and beneficiaries, and how life changes such as retirement or divorce can impact these areas.
Business Entity Income Tax: Regulatory Rigidity Versus Flexibility
An explanation of the rigidity and flexibility of different business entities: C corporations, S corporations, partnerships and LLCs by tax experts.
S Corporation Death Traps
What happens when the principal shareholder of an S corporation dies? Solutions are discussed by estate planning experts.
Levitan v. Rosen Case
Are trusts considered marital property? A review of the Levitan v. Rosen and Pfannenstiehl v. Pfannenstiehl cases offer considerations when drafting of marital property provisions in trust documents.
The Life Insurance Transfer for Value Rule After the 2017 Tax Reform Act
What is the Life Insurance Transfer for Value Rule and how has it been changed following the Tax Reform Act? An expert on the topic explains what you need to know.
Update of Asset Protection Trust Litigation
A review of recent asset protection trust court cases – Wacker, Campbell, Cyr and Rensin – and offers the lessons learned from the rulings.
Self-Settled Spendthrift Trusts
Understand how to minimize the risks and avoid fraudulent transfer rulings with creating self-settled spendthrift trusts.