January 2012

• Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts - GRATs
• Basics of Estate Planning: Will Clauses - Part 3
• Estate of the Month: Recent Hollywood Couple's Divorces Provide Perfect Estate Planning Teaching Moment

Topics include: Estate Planning for Unsualy Assets, Gifting and Gift Tax Rules, How to Pick a Trustee and Trustee Powers , Spousal Election, Powers of Attorney , More Digital Estate Planning, Will Clauses , Charitable Giving and Your Estate, Guardian Ad Litem and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Local Socialite Viola Drath , Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Raplh Steinman , The Trouble with Trouble , Gene Upshaw , Tony Curtis , The Widow of Malcolm X - Dr. Betty Shabazz and others.

Topics include: Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts ("ILITs"), Advanced Medical Directives ("AMD"), Federal Estate Tax?, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts ("QPRT"), Digital Estate Planning, IRA Roth Conversions, Probate, Life Insurance Benefits and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Sean Taylor, Steve McNair, Walter Kronkite, George Steinbrenner, John O'Quinn, Gary Coleman and others.