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2011 Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal Seminar

By Gerry W. Beyer

CLE The Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal is hosting a seminar on Friday, February 18, 2011 in the Bill and Carolyn Lanier Auditorium at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock.  For more information about the CLE, click here.  For the registration form, click here.    

The schedule, along with allotted CLE credit amouts, is below:

  • 7:30     Registration and Continental Breakfast
  • 8:30     Welcoming Remarks, Thuy B. Thai, Editor-in-Chief
  • 8:35     Non-Probate Property and Probate Dispositions of Community Property (.75 hr), Thomas M. Featherston, Jr., The Mills Cox Chair of Law, Baylor University Law School
  • 9:20     Student Speaker
  • 9:30     Break
  • 9:40     When an Estate Includes Works of Art: Issues in Planning, Drafting and Administration (.75 hr), Anne-Marie Rhodes, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  • 10:25    Student Speaker
  • 10:35    Avoiding the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death”: Common Non-Tax Errors and How to Prevent Them (.75 hr including .75 hr ethics), Gerry W. Beyer, Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law
  • 11:20    Student Speaker
  • 11:30    Lunch Break
  • 11:50    Charities as Beneficiaries: What to Know – Perspectives from the Bench and the Attorney General’s Office (1.25 hrs including .25 hr ethics – Lunch Panel)
    • The Honorable Polly Spencer, Probate Court No. 1, San Antonio, Texas
    • Susan Staricka, Office of the Attorney General, State of Texas
    • Moderator: Susan Fortney, Interim Dean and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law
  • 1:05     Dessert Break
  • 1:25     Planning for Life After Death: The Ability to Control the Disposition of One’s Remains and Posthumous Use of One’s Genetic Material (.75 hr), Joshua S. Rubenstein, Co-Managing Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, New York
  • 2:10     Recent Tax Developments in Estate Planning (.75 hr), Stanley M. Johanson, Fannie Coplin Regents Chair University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas School of Law
  • 2:55     Break
  • 3:05     Student Speaker
  • 3:15     Yours, Mine, and Ours: Now, Later, or Never? What the Community Property Lawyer Should Know About the Elective Share (.75 hr), William P. LaPiana, Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates, New York Law School
  • 4:00     Reception

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