Practical Guide to Estate Planning with CD (2012 Edition) - Softcover

Ray D. Madoff; Cornelia R. Tenney; Martin A. Hall; Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0808026038 ISBN 13: 9780808026037

Publisher: CCH, 2011

Synopsis

Provides an overview of estate planning, offering discussion on planning principles and tools from the simple to the sophisticated. Features a well-annotated collection of forms that will appeal to many experienced estate planners. This publication; Addresses the rules involved in estate planning and; structures to achieve desired tax effects; Discusses gifts, generation-skipping transfer tax rules and; charitable planning; Contains a set of estate planning forms, including a living; trust, an irrevocable life insurance trust, annual exclusion; trusts, a pour-over will, QPRT and more

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About the Author

Ray D. Madoff is a Professor at Boston College Law School specializing in the areas of trusts and estates and estate planning. Prior to entering teaching, Professor Madoff practiced law in New York and Boston. She received her B.A. with honors from Brown University and her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. Professor Madoff has been a frequent lecturer on issues of tax and estate planning and she is the author of numerous publications. Professor Madoff is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of the American Law Institute. Cornelia R. Tenney is an attorney in the estate planning and nonprofit groups at Hemenway and Barnes in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. with honors and an M.L.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University. She served as a clerk to Justice Ruth Abrams at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her practice is focused on sophisticated estate planning, planning for business interests, and charitable organizations, and she has written and lectured frequently on these topics. Martin A. Hall has been with the law firm of Ropes & Gray, in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1986 and has been a partner since 1994. He is the current chair of the firm's Private Client Group. Martin graduated with an M.A. in law, first class honors (1981) from Cambridge University, England and earned a J.D., summa cum laude (1986) from Boston University School of Law. Martin is co-author with Carolyn M. Osteen, also of Ropes & Gray, of the Harvard Manual on Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving (8th ed. 1999). Martin is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and has served as Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla is a partner in the Trusts and Estates and Tax Departments at Sullivan & Worcester LLP In Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Mingolla received her B.S.E., magna cum laude, from Princeton University, her J.D. from Boston College Law School, and her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section and Estate Planning Committee of the Boston Bar Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: CCH
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0808026038
• ISBN 13: 9780808026037
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 864