Estate Planning

Catalog description

This course will begin with an overview of basic gift, estate, and generation-skipping-transfer tax law. Fundamental topics of estates and gifts will be covered as well as basic estate planning documents and estate devices. The student will explore how to apply these topics through real-life cases. The second half of the course will be a more in-depth examination of the tools and techniques of estate planning based on the transfer tax rules taught in the first half of the course. This course will cover in great detail the estate planning techniques for lifetime gifts as well as life insurance planning and estate planning for qualified plans and IRAs. Other areas to be discussed will include ownership of family business entities and limited liability companies.