Summer 2016

• Estate Litigation - Part 1 - Will Contests
• Basics of Estate Planning: What is an Account Used for in Probate?
• Estate of the Month: Harper Lee's Probate Administration Raises Questions

April 2016

• What is Disclaiming
• Basics of Estate Planning: What is an Inventory in Probate?
• Estate of the Month: When Doves Cry Must Mean There is No Will - Prince's Big Estate Problem

February 2016

• Why Estate Planning is Important
• Basics of Estate Planning: Probate v. Non-probate Assets
• Estate of the Month: Late Tennessee Titans Owner Estate Could Cause Heirs to Sell Team

Topics include: What is aCorporate Trustee?, How to Access a Decedent's Safety Deposit Box , What are Powers of Appointment?, How do you Strech-Out an IRA?, What is a CRUT?, and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Frank Gifford , Lamar Odom, More problems for Whitney Houston's estate, Ernie Banks, and others.

Topics include: Gap Trust, Adoption and Estate Planning , What are Spendthrift Clauses, Supreme Court ruling in Raymer case changes inherited IRA rules , Using 529 accounts in your estate plan, Digital Estate Planning and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Robin Williams v. Lauren Becall , Casey Kasem, former NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's estate Part 1 and Part 2, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and others.

Topics include: ATRA, Virginia's Aid and Direction , What is a Trust Protector and Corporate Trustee?, A four-part series (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and (Part 4) on estate planning with IRAs, Transfer on Death Deeds in Virginia and D.C., and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Thomas Kinkade , Windsor v. U.S.: the decision that overturned DOMA, James Gandolfini, Claudia Cohen, Update on the Michael Jackson Estate, and others.

Topics include: Fiscal Cliff Issues, Virginia's New Title 64.2 , Virginia's New Domestic Asset Protection Trust, How Grandma can Give Away Her Good China, Why Joint-Tenancy Might not be the Best Estate Plan , Portability, Will Clauses, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts - GRATS, and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Singer Davy Jones , Former NFL PLayer Alex Karras, A Beastie Boy , Joe Paterno, Junior Seau , Whitney Houston Part I and Part II and others.

Topics include: Estate Planning for Unusual Assets, Gifting and Gift Tax Rules, How to Pick a Trustee and Trustee Powers , Spousal Election, Powers of Attorney, More Digital Estate Planning, Will Clauses, Charitable Giving and Your Estate, Guardian Ad Litem and much more.

Estate of the Months Covered include: Local Socialite Viola Drath , Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Raplh Steinman , The Trouble with Trouble , Gene Upshaw , Tony Curtis , The Widow of Malcolm X - Dr. Betty Shabazz and others.

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.