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Estate & Gift Planning

Estate Planning Fundamentals

  • Reviewing Your Estate Plan (Dec)
  • Do You Have These Key Estate Planning Documents? (Jan)
  • What Is a Trust Fund and How Does It Work?
  • Use of Trusts and Creditor Implications
  • Who Is Your Descendant: Who Inherits Under Your Will And Trusts?
  • Bypassing Probate
  • Estate Planning Pyramid
  • Status of State Death Taxes: Summary
  • Health Care Proxies - 5 Biggest Mistakes
  • You've Received an Inheritance, Now What? (Oct)
  • Retirement Plans and Estate Planning
  • Estate as Beneficiary of Traditional IRA or Retirement Plan
  • Spouse as Beneficiary of Traditional IRA or Retirement Plan
  • Child, Grandchild, or Other Individual as Beneficiary of Traditional IRA or Retirement Plan
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Business Succession Planning Alternatives
  • Minority Position with Buy-Sell over Time
  • Structuring a Tax-Free Sale
  • Structuring Taxable Sales
  • Retained Voting Rights
  • Selling Your Business to Family
  • Family Limited Partnership (FLP) or Limited Liability Company (FLLC)
  • Family LLC Examples in Estate Planning
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Types of Trusts

  • Revocable Living Trust
  • Marital and Related Trusts
  • Credit Shelter Trust
  • A/B Trust Diagram: $27,980,000 Estate
  • Marital Trust (also called an A Trust)
  • Bypass Trust (also called B Trust or Credit Shelter Trust)
  • Qualified Terminable Interest Property (QTIP) Trust (also called C Trust)
  • Customizing Trusts
  • Trust for Minors
  • 2503(c) Trust
  • 2503(b) Trust
  • Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust (ILIT)
  • Dynasty Trust
  • Generation-Skipping Trust
  • Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)
  • Grantor Retained Income Trust (GRIT)
  • Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT)
  • Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trust (IDIT)
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Gifting Strategies

  • Filing a Gift Tax Return
  • Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA/UGMA)
  • Lifetime Gifting of Stock or Business Interest
  • Coordinating Sale with Gifting to Minimize Estate Tax
  • Self-Canceling Installment Note (SCIN)
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