December 2015

• End of the Year Estate Planning
• Basics of Estate Planning: Who Wants to be a Personal Representative?
• Estate of the Month: A Beautiful Mind Provides an Estate Planning Lesson

October 2015

• Can an Irrevocable Trust be Amended? - Part 2 - Trust Decanting
• Basics of Estate Planning: What is a Corporate Trustee?
• Estate of the Month: Lamar Odom

September 2015

• Can an Irrevocable Trust be Amended? - Part 1
• Basics of Estate Planning: How Do I Get a Will Out of Safe Deposit Box?
• Estate of the Month: Frank Gifford

August 2015

• Virginia Enacts New Digital Estate Planning Laws
• Basics of Estate Planning: Charitable Gifting through a CRUT
• Estate of the Month: Whitney Houston's Estate Has More Problems

Summer 2015

• What is the Five by Five Power of Appointment?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Five Wishes
• Estate of the Month: Jazz Great King has Royal Estate Problem

May 2015

• What are Powers of Appointment
• Basics of Estate Planning: What are Slayer Statutes?
• Estate of the Month: Dean Smith

April 2015

• What is the ABLE Act?
• Basics of Estate Planning: Why Should I Have an Estate Plan?
• Estate of the Month: Tom Benson

March 2015

• How Do You Stretch Out an IRA?
• Basics of Estate Planning: How Does a Gift Plan Work Within Your Estate Plan?
• Update on the Robin Williams Estate: Maybe His Trust Needed Some More Work After All?
• Estate of the Month: Estate Plans? Hey, Let's Play Two!

February 2015

• Beneficiary Designations on Will Substitutes
• Basics of Estate Planning: What is Simultaneous Death?
• Estate of the Month: A Clear and Present Danger Estate Plan

January 2015

• President Obama's State of the Union and Estate Planning
• Basics of Estate Planning: What Non-Estate Planning Documents Should Every Person Complete?
• Estate of the Month: Joan Rivers

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.