Banking & Finance

This valuable guide assists attorneys in choosing the most effective means for protecting a client’s marital, family, and business assets while navigating tricky areas such as offshore trusts to avoid improper transfers.

Understand the business valuation report prepared by a valuator skilled in valuations for divorce and how to use various pieces of the expert’s report. Learn how a business valuation expert can help develop the owner’s true economic income for support, find hidden assets, and trace source of assets.

The sophisticated guidance in this handbook for bankers, bank counsel, real estate attorneys, and others involved in the lending process is the product of the author’s many years of documenting, administering, and enforcing loan documentation.

This guide presents practical information on creditors’ rights issues, including new S.Ct. Rule 280.

This title assists attorneys dealing with complicated bankruptcy and collection issues under the Bankruptcy Code.

This form requires TheFormTool PRO software plug-in.

This form requires TheFormTool PRO software plug-in.

Written by David J. Lanciotti, this comprehensive manual details every aspect of land trusts from the traditional use to the modern consolidations of today.

A comparison of the various scenarios in which a trust can be decanted under the Illinois Trust Code and a discussion of the step-by-step processes needed for a valid decanting in each scenario.

Learn from a panel of trust officers about best practices for administering special needs trusts, including how to effectively title assets and handle tax issues.

Depositions are a discovery device and can be an important part of fully preparing your case, not only for trial, but for settlement. Through the use of videos of actual depositions as a learning tool, gain important tips about the art of taking a deposition in a divorce case. You will also learn about the documents and testimony that are relevant during the deposition of the financial expert.

One of the most consequential decisions (and often the last one) in estate planning is trustee selection. The trustee who seems like the most ideal choice at first glance may not necessarily have the diversity of subject matter expertise and oversight to allow for continuous, efficient, and robust administration. Learn about important considerations for trustee selection, the pros and cons of including a professional fiduciary in your estate plan, and how to counsel clients to make informed choices when crafting an estate plan and choosing a trustee.