Product Description

This new program explores examples of common issues encountered in blended families, related case law, and estate planning practice tips and strategies to avoid or mitigate the issues. Take a deep dive with the expert panelists and improve your skill set.

Agenda & Materials

• 3:00 - 3:05 pm

  Welcome and Introduction

  Lisa M. Cukier, Esq., Rubin and Rudman LLP , Boston
  
• 3:05 - 3:25 pm

  Estate Planning Issues that give rise to Fiduciary Litigation in Blended Families

  • Undue Influence in blended families
  • Trusts with life estate for the surviving spouse, with remainder to children from prior marriage
  • QTIP Trusts with surviving second spouse and remaindermen from prior marriage
  • Accounting tensions: Schwalm v. Schwalm
  • Estate tax apportionment tensions

  Jennifer L. Laucirica, Esq., Rubin and Rudman LLP , Boston
  
• 3:25 - 3:45 pm

  Basics of Estate Planning with Blended Families

  • Intestacy
  • Spousal Elective Share & Spousal Election
  • Forfeiture Clauses
  • Exclusionary Language in Instruments

  Molly R. Soiffer, Esq., Bove Langa Witherell & Soiffer P.C. , Boston
  
• 3:45 - 4:05 pm

  Estate Administration Issues in Blended Families

  • Controversies in estate administration where there is no Will
  • Controversies where there are no burial instructions
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  • Spousal elective share issues: Ciani v. McGrath
  • Estate administration and divorce

  Jennifer L. Laucirica, Esq., Rubin and Rudman LLP , Boston
  
• 4:05 - 4:25 pm

  Estate Planning Practice Notes

  • Prenuptial Agreements which set out to predetermine surviving spouse estate rights and interests on death of the first to die
  • MUPC laws regarding non-updated beneficiary designations
  • Accounting: is there a duty to account to remainder beneficiaries under Schwalm v Schwalm

  Molly R. Soiffer, Esq., Bove Langa Witherell & Soiffer P.C. , Boston
  
• 4:25 - 4:45 pm

  Just When You Thought the Coast Was Clear

  • DPOA and Conservatorship power as a game changer that can up-end estate rights and interests at the very end
  • Barbetti v. Stempniewicz

  Lisa M. Cukier, Esq., Rubin and Rudman LLP , Boston
  
• 4:45 - 5:00 pm

  "Ask the Experts" Q&A Session and Key Takeaways

  Panel
  

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