Webinar Recorded: August 10, 2017
Presented by Kristin Yokomoto, MBA, JD, LLM, TEP, Albrecht & Barney
Duration: 59 minutes
Trust administration is a critical component of the elder law process. With more people passing away with trusts, successor trustees need your services to help them to understand their fiduciary duties and properly administer a trust. To oversee multiple administrations you need a disciplined process so that important tax issues are analyzed correctly and deadlines are met. Join this webinar to find out more about the benefits of a trust administration practice and how to develop a process to avoid pitfalls and liability.
We’ll cover:
- Creating a process from start to finish
- Initial Steps
- Client Meeting
- Small vs Large Estates
- Trust Documents
- Trust Provisions
- Assets
- Valuations
- Filings and Deadlines
- Probate Court Proceedings
- Qualified Disclaimers
- Comparison of first death versus second death administrations
- Tax Returns
- Understanding outright distributions versus sub-trusts allocations
- Protecting the successor trustee with allocation agreements
- Preventing beneficiary litigation
CLE: 1 Hour
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