Trusts

This course introduces stock-based compensation, how it works, and how it can impact trust and estate planning.

Learn how to address language and literature barriers, vision impairments, and hearing loss in legal practice. Participants will explore an attorney’s obligations to accommodate clients' needs and the standards required for adequate accommodation. Practical strategies will be shared to ensure clients facing these challenges are effectively supported, ensuring accessibility and adherence to ethical and legal standards.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

Enhance your ability to effectively guide clients in trust administration, ensuring compliance and avoiding common pitfalls that can lead to litigation, such as demands for accounting and citations for removal. This session will also deliver valuable insights into managing trust-related issues already in litigation and provide strategies for advising clients under the Illinois Trust Code.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

This handbook provides detailed guidance, including provisions to cover varying client matters, for drafting revocable grantor trusts as a key element of client estate plans.

This course provides a broad overview of Illinois land trust law and administration. It includes legislative and case law updates.

This course focuses on helping attorneys better understand the impact their clients', and their own, religious beliefs can have as they work through the estate planning process.

Enhance your skills, broaden your knowledge base and network with peers and experienced faculty at the annual Elder Law Short Course! This comprehensive program is designed for Illinois attorneys specializing in elder law and provides a focused exploration of the most current and critical issues affecting older adults and their families. Topics covered include estate planning, Medicaid, long-term care planning and updates on recent legal developments.

Online On-Demand, includes all breakout sessions.

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This presentation focuses on the increasing use of Directed Trusts in Special Needs Planning, and discusses the Uniform Directed Trusts Act.

This course focuses on strategies you can implement in the foundational estate plan documents you put in place for clients using revocable living trusts. Included are overviews of the federal estate tax, Illinois estate tax, and a variety of trusts. Originally presented as part of the Estate Planning for the 99%.

This handbook is a comprehensive guide designed to lead attorneys through issues involved in planning for individuals with special needs and in establishing special needs trusts.

This is a comprehensive guide that is full of practical advice as well as in-depth explanations of the law.

This handy reference tool will help seasoned attorneys and will provide useful information for new attorneys, legal assistants, and law clerks working with clients in the planning and administration of an estate.