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Special Estate Planning Package (EP8)

The following 3 Estate Planning courses in one package.

Retirement Plan Distributions To Trusts: How To Make Them Work

Full Brochure

Length 1.75 Hours
Date 9/25/07

Table of Contents
50-Pages

 

Proper planning and drafting for the distribution of a client’s retirement plan assets to trusts is one of the most difficult tasks in estate planning. This 1.75-hour September 25, 2007 program gives you a useful and practical explanation of how to correctly navigate through the relevant rules. Steven G. Siegel , a nationally-recognized speaker and author on this topic, simplifies and even makes understandable, this important topic.

Topics include:

ü General Rules

• IRD issues

• trusts as designated beneficiaries: five issues

ü How To Determine Which Trust Beneficiary’s Life Expectancy To Use

• multiple beneficiaries

• contingent beneficiaries

• accumulation trust concerns

• conduit trusts

• separate share problem

• IRS positions

• drafting

ü Should Retirement Plan Trusts Be Used?

• planning advantages

• credit shelter trusts

• disclaimer issues

• drafting

ü Funding The Credit Shelter Trust

ü How To Address QTIP Trust Planning With Retirement Plan Assets

• required formalities

• Rev. Rul. 2006-26

• drafting suggestions

ü Special IRA Rollover Break For Spouses

ü Planning Opportunities For A Spouse As The Beneficiary Of Marital And Non-Marital Shares

ü 2006 Pension Protection Act Provisions

ü Drafting Suggestions

Wealth Transfer Tax Developments (2007)

Full Brochure

Length 2.5 Hours
Date 9/25/07

Table of Contents
72-Pages

The 72-page course book and 2.5-hour presentation by Jeffrey N. Pennell, Esq. on September 25, 2007, give you a practical and useful explanation of the recent significant developments in Federal transfer taxes, i.e., estate, gift, generation-skipping and fiduciary income taxation. Mr. Pennell is the Richard H. Clark Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.

Topics include:

• TreasuryÂ’s Priority Guidance Plan

• Valuation Of Fractional Interests

• Valuation Of Streaming Payments

Kohler And Alternate Valuation

• Technical Advice Memorandum 2006-48028

Estate Of Gimbel

• GRATs

• FLPs/LLCs And Discounts

• IRC Section 2053 Proposed Regulations

• Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Forms Issued

• Generation-Skipping Transfers

• Tax Payment

• Private Annuity Trusts

• IRC Section 67(e) and The 2% Haircut

• More

 

Valuation Discounts With FLPs/LLCs: Where Are We Now?

Full Brochure

Length 2.1 Hours
Date 9/24/07

Table of Contents
81-Pages

The 2.1-hour presentation and 81-page course book from this September 24, 2007 program by John W. Porter, Esq. provide you with a comprehensive and useful explanation of the current status of IRS attacks on valuation discounts claimed with FLPs and LLCs, the taxpayers’ responses and important cases. Mr. Porter, who is a partner in the Houston, Texas law firm of Baker & Botts, is considered by many to be the leading expert on this subject.

Topics include:

ü Overview

• define bundle of rights

• value thereof

• why IRS attacks entities

Murphy argument

• gift on formation argument

ü IRC Section 2036(a)(1)

Bigelow

Korby

Strangi

Thompson

ü IRC Section 2036(a)(2)

Strangi

Kimbell

Cohen

ü Bona Fide Sale For Adequate And Full Consideration

ü Production Of Documents

ü Where Are We Now?

• IRS settlement guidelines

Lappo, McCord, Peracchio

üDefined Value Or Formula Transfers

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Audio CD and Course Book
$229.00


DVD and Course Book
$269.00