Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Estate Planning
Estate Planning

Author: William P. Streng

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-02-08

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1119157129

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Plan ahead: estate planning to secure your wishes Estate Planning is your overview of the estate planning concepts that are necessary to consider when advising your clients about the different facets of wealth transfer planning. This fundamental reference presents the basic estate, gift, and trust planning ideas in a descriptive and accessible manner—allowing you to easily and conveniently access the information you need when you need it. This essential text covers the development of estate planning strategies for your clients, the fundamentals of the federal transfer tax system, relevant federal income tax rules, lifetime donative asset transfers, gratuitous property transfers at death, generation-skipping transfers, special property transfer planning considerations, and post-mortem planning. When done effectively, estate planning enables your clients to make both lifetime and testamentary transfers of assets to beneficiaries of their choice. In the process, strategic, successful estate planning strategies conserve wealth for these beneficiaries, who are often family members of the client. Leveraging the right methods of estate planning can ensure that you achieve your client's objectives. Explore the fundamentals of estate planning as they relate to wealth transfer planning Dive into special property transfer planning considerations, including community property, life insurance, charitable transfers, closely held corporations, etc. Better serve your clients by having access to relevant, easy to navigate information on estate planning best practices Reinforce these new ideas with a comprehensive test bank Estate Planning is your guide to estate planning concepts that help you protect your assets during wealth transfer—and prepare for your assets to change hands as smoothly as possible.

Estate Planning and Drafting
Estate Planning and Drafting

Author: JEFFREY N. PENNELL

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 9781647086596

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Updated through August 1, 2020, the third edition of Pennell's Estate Planning and Drafting focuses on every-day planning for "middle-rich" clients. For example: Traditional planning for couples who may not have as much wealth as double the basic exclusion amount but who anticipate that the exclusion amount may decline in the future. They must consider whether to qualify 100% of the estate of the first to die for the marital deduction (and defer all taxes), or instead to shelter the unified credit of the first to die in a nonmarital trust. In either case they also need to decide whether to elect portability for any unused exclusion amount. A sharper focus on family trust planning for clients with enough wealth to worry about protecting their beneficiaries (and wealth) but for whom sophisticated tax-minimization techniques are not needed. A new brief explanation of Code Chapter 14 illustrates its application but notes that most middle-rich clients will not stumble into estate freezing techniques. The coverage of retirement benefits is updated to reflect the SECURE Act changes to the required-minimum-distribution rules, and elimination of most stretch-payout planning. The chapter on charitable giving is streamlined and simplified in recognition that most middle-rich clients do not make extensive use of private foundations or split-interest trusts. Information about postmortem planning and fiduciary administration stresses state and federal income taxation and state death taxation in situations that do not trigger federal wealth transfer taxation. The text explains essential tax fundamentals that inform traditional techniques (e.g. Crummey powers), without overemphasis on the tax-oriented practices that led to their original adoption. There are over 100 pages of annotated forms illustrating basic planning documents, including a pour over will, self-trusteed declaration of trust, irrevocable life insurance trust, family and marital deduction trusts, and a third-party special needs trust.

Elder Law Answer Book
Elder Law Answer Book

Author: Robert B. Fleming

Publisher: Aspen Publishers

Published: 2009-10-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780735580565

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Written by nationally-known elder law practitioners, Robert B. Fleming and Lisa Nachmias Davis, the Elder Law Answer Book gathers the most current legal, regulatory, and practice guidelines from the core topics of elder law, long-term care, estate planning, retirement planning, healthcare decision making, and rights of the elderly -- and presents this information in a thoroughly integrated, easy-access reference. The all-new Third Edition of Elder Law Answer Book helps you render sound advice and give reliable guidance on: Medicaid and Long-Term Care Planning Estate Planning Probate and Trust Administration Special Needs Trusts Medicare And More! Only Elder Law Answer Book delivers and‘How-toand’ explanations of the guiding rule or regulation, along with current citations to the relevant cases and statutesand—including the Deficit Reduction Act Expert legal analysis of the special rules and how they typically apply Detailed information about each of the disparate, but frequently related, aspects of elder law practiceand—age discrimination, nursing home rights, Medicaid and other public benefits programs, as well as traditional estate planning and administration Real-world practice examples that help you implement the applicable rules or guidelines in a wide variety of situations Extensive cross-references to related topicsand—for fast and easy research Index and at-a-glance list of questions that help you zero in on the exact information you are looking for