The ABA Real Property, Probate & Trusts Section launches its Essential Issues in Trust and Estate Law Fundamentals Series today with a teleconference and webcast on Review of Estate Tax, Gift Tax, and GST Tax from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST:

This first program in our comprehensive series consists of an overview of the estate tax, gift tax, and generation-skipping transfer tax systems. In particular, this program focuses on fundamental estate planning concepts such as: planning with your client’s applicable exclusion amount, computing gross and taxable estates, utilizing marital and charitable deductions, implementing annual exclusion gifts, and understanding generation-skipping transfer tax transfers. In addition, the program will briefly address recent proposals for estate tax reform. The program will provide both a solid framework for junior practitioners and an excellent review for senior practitioners.

Faculty:

• Rana H. Salti (McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago)
• Louis Nostro (Shutts & Bowen, Miami)