October 2014

• Update on Digital Estate Planning
• Basics of Estate Planning: What Estate Planning Documents Should Every Person Complete?
• Update on Old Estates of the Month

September 2014

• What is the Difference Between Per Capita and Per Stirpes?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Estate Planning Tips When You Have Minor Children
• Lauren Bacall v. Robin Williams - One Celebrity Gets it Right Another Likely Gets it Wrong

Summer 2014

• Making a Section 83(b) election: The Hot Internet Stock Employee Conundrum
• Basics of Estate Planning: How to use 529 Plans in Estate Planning?
• Estate of the Month: Casey Kasem - An Estate with Its Feet in the Mud and Reaching for Messy Litigation

June 2014

• Clark v. Rameker: Supreme Court Rules Inherited IRA's are not Protected in Bankruptcy. (But, There may be Exceptions!)
• Basics of Estate Planning: What are Spendthrift Clauses?
• Estate of the Month: Donald Sterling - the Ongoing Saga

May 2014

• Pooled and Special Needs Trusts: What are they and how are they used?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Critical Care/Critical Illness Riders: What are they and why are they currently surging in popularity?
• Estate of the Month: Donald Sterling

April 2014

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA): Another Estate Asset?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Maryland Increases Estate Tax Exemption
• Estate of the Month: Mickey Rooney

March 2014

• Financial Elder Abuse is a Growing Issue
• Basics of Estate Planning: How Does Adoption and Step-children Effect Estate Planning?
• Estate of the Month: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Estate Has a Tax Problem

February 2014

• Family Limited Partnerships ("FLP")
• Basics of Estate Planning: Digital Estate Planning with a Dead 1950's Movie Star
• Estate of the Month: Nelson Mandela

January 2014

• A, B, C...What is a Gap Trust?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Is My Will Valid if I Move to Another State?
• Estate of the Month: Maybe Disney is not the Happiest Place on Earth?

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 , Protability, 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 Unsualy 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.