CLE on Tax Issues Involving Decanting Irrevocable Trusts

The ALI-CLE is sponsoring a telephone seminar/audio website entitled, Tax and Non-Tax Aspects of Decanting Irrevocable Trusts, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST. Provided below is description of the event:

Decanting is an increasingly popular strategy among estate planning practitioners to restructure otherwise irrevocable truts to accomplish a variety of tax and non-tax objectives for their clients.

In this 90-minute program, you will learn from some of the nation’s top practitioners the principal circumstances in which decatning is an appropriate strategy. The panelists will discuss practical and jurisdictional issues, which a particular emphasis on how decanting can be used to avoid or resolve trust disputes among trust beneficiaries. The panelists will also address the likely tax consequences of decanting based upon the most compelling commentaries that have been submitted to the IRS to date.