December 2011

• Last Minute 2011 Estate Planning Tips
• Basics of Estate Planning: Will Clauses - Part 2
• Update Estate of the Month: Some Twists in Local Socialite's Murder
• Estate of the Month: Last Year's Holiday Demonsgtrates Why Planning is Important

October 2011

• Estate Planning for the Unusual Asset...Say NFL Season Tickets
• Basics of Estate Planning: Will Clauses - Part 1: The Introductory Clauses
• Estate of the Month: Nobel Prize Winner Dies Days Before Recieving Award, Could Create Estate Planning Issues

September 2011

• It is Hard to Gift it Away
• Basics of Estate Planning: Guardian Ad Litem
• Estate of the Month: Local Socialite's Inheritance Document Believed Forged

Summer 2011

• The Trustee: Part III…Trustee Responsibilities
• Basics of Estate Planning: Life Estate in Estate Planning
• Estate of the Month: Disinheriting a Child and Its Unforeseen Consequences

June 2011

• The Trustee: Part II…Trustee Powers
• Basics of Estate Planning: Spousal Disclaimer and Mixed Assets
• Estate of the Month: Trouble with Trouble

May 2011

• The Trustee: Part 1…Picking a Trustee
• Basics of Estate Planning: Spousal Election
• Estate of the Month: Gene Upshaw

April 2011

• Charitable Giving and Your Estate
• Basics of Estate Planning: What are the Types of Wills?
• Estate of the Month: The Impact of Student Loans on Your Estate

March 2011

• More Digital Estate Planning Issues
• Basics of Estate Planning: Guardianships for Minors
• Estate of the Month: I'm Spartacus but evidently not a Dad

February 2011

• Estate Planning Opportunities for 2011 and 2012 - Leveraging a Gift
• Basics of Estate Planning: Power of Attorney
• Estate of the Month: The A, B and X of What Not to do in Probate

January 2011

• The 2011 Estate Tax Changes
• Basics of Estate Planning: Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trusts ("QTIPs")
• Estate of the Month: Elizabeth Edwards and Why the Press is Probably Wrong

Topics include: Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts ("ILITs"), Advanced Medical Directives ("AMD"), Federal Estate Tax?, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts ("QPRT"), Digital Estate Planning, IRA Roth Conversions, Probate, Life Insurance Benefits and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Sean Taylor, Steve McNair, Walter Kronkite, George Steinbrenner, John O'Quinn, Gary Coleman and others.