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The Connelly Case: Estate and Financial Planning Implications

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Patti Spencer
With Patti S. Spencer from Spencer Law Firm LLC
Recorded August 27, 2024
Product ID 99520

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Overview

Adjust Your Tactics and Revise Plans Already in Place

The recent SCOTUS decision in Connelly v. United States has significant repercussions for estate and financial planning, especially for clients with closely held businesses, further exacerbated by the impending sunset of TCJA's estate tax provisions. The implications run deep for a wide range of clients. What do you need to do now to revise existing plans and how do you adjust your tactics long-term to avoid unintended tax liability? How has planning for life insurance proceeds changed? This practical legal update will prepare you for the inevitable client questions and help you adjust your tactics to prevent tax problems. Register today!

  • Analyze the details of the case and the language of the SCOTUS decision.
  • Sum up short-term and far-reaching implications for planning with life insurance and pass-through entities.
  • Learn what to look for when revising existing buy-sell agreements.
  • Come away better prepared to guard your clients' assets.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. The Facts of the Case, Legal Theories at Play, and SCOTUS Decision Analysis
  2. The Connelly Impact Exacerbated by the Coming 2016 Estate Tax Exclusion Sunset
  3. Reviewing and Amending Buy-Sell Agreements
  4. Revising Life Insurance-Based Planning

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Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Approved 1 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 1 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 1 Total
California CLE Approved 1 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 1 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 1 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 1 Total
Florida CLE Approved 1 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 1 Total
Iowa CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Idaho CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 1 Total
Louisiana CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Maine CLE Approved 1 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 1 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 1.2 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 1 Total
Montana CLE Upon Request 1 Total
North Dakota CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 1 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 1 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 1 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 1 Total
New York CLE Approved 1 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 1 Total
Oregon CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 1 Total
Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 1 Total
Washington CLE Approved 1 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 1 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 1.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Upon Request 1 Total
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  1. The Connelly Case: Estate and Financial Planning Implications

    1. The Facts of the Case, Legal Theories at Play, and SCOTUS Decision Analysis
    2. The Connelly Impact Exacerbated by the Coming 2016 Estate Tax Exclusion Sunset
    3. Reviewing and Amending Buy-Sell Agreements
    4. Revising Life Insurance-Based Planning

Who Should Attend

This legal update is designed for attorneys. Accountants, tax professionals, financial planners, and paralegals will also benefit.

Speakers

Patti S Spencer
Patti S.
Spencer
Spencer Law Firm LLC
Speaker bio
Patti S Spencer

Patti S. Spencer

Spencer Law Firm LLC
Patti Spencer

is an attorney with Metzger and Spencer, LLP and Spencer Law Firm LLC in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she provides experience and depth in estate planning, trust and estate administration, complex tax consulting, charitable gift planning, wealth transfer vehicles and retirement plan consulting, and expert witness testimony. Ms. Spencer taught estate and gift tax for eight years as an adjunct professor at Boston University in the LL.M. program, and also was a former professor of trusts and estates at Boston University School of Law. In addition, she has spoken numerous times on topics related to her areas of expertise. Ms. Spencer is the author of a weekly column Taxing Matters, which appeared in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal's Business Monday Section for 14 years. She also has written Pennsylvania Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts Library: Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace, which is updated annually. Ms. Spencer earned her B.A. degree from Dickinson College, her J.D. degree from Boston University and her LL.M. degree from Boston University. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

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