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Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts: Income, Gift, Estate, and GST Tax; State Limitations; Building in Powers and Options

An encore presentation with Live Q&A.

A 90-minute CLE/CPE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

1:00pm-2:30pm EST, 10:00am-11:30am PST

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, October 11, 2024

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE/CPE course will guide trusts and estates counsel on leveraging spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs) in estate planning in light of the current and ever-changing tax law. The panel will discuss critical issues concerning income, gift, estate, and GST taxes, including pitfalls to avoid. The webinar will explore SLAT basics, discuss how to design SLATs to incorporate flexibility to anticipate an ever-changing landscape, and review the best way to minimize tax liability and ensure multi-generational gifting and flexible long-term planning.

Description

The current estate tax exemption is scheduled to sunset to pre-2017 levels at the end of 2025, creating uncertainty and challenges in designing estate plans. SLATs can capitalize on current federal and state estate exemption levels in case there is a shift in the current tax regime.

A SLAT is an irrevocable trust created by one spouse for the other's benefit by using the gift tax exemption to make a gift to the SLAT, naming the other spouse as the current beneficiary. Children and grandchildren may also be named as trust beneficiaries during the spouse's lifetime but will certainly benefit after the beneficiary spouse's death. This allows limited access to the beneficiary spouse to the SLAT assets and offers flexibility for the family.

Trusts and estates counsel must have a clear understanding of critical tax issues that may arise. The estate and gift tax exemption of $13,610,000 per individual allows SLATs to be a useful lifetime tax savings tool when structured correctly. It can apply to various liquid and illiquid assets, allowing them to flow to the next generation outside of the estate tax regime.

Listen as our panel discusses critical issues and pitfalls to avoid with income, gift, estate, and GST taxes when using SLATs. The panel will explore SLAT basics, discuss how to design SLATs to incorporate flexibility to anticipate an ever-changing landscape, and the best way to minimize tax liability and ensure multi-generational gifting and flexible long-term planning.

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Outline

  1. Considerations for the use of SLATs in estate planning
    1. Definition and key characteristics
    2. Benefits
    3. Potential drawbacks
    4. Access to SLAT assets
    5. Building in flexibility
  2. Critical tax considerations under the current tax regime
    1. Dual trusts (reciprocal trust doctrine)
    2. Funding the SLAT (including impact of joint property)
    3. SLATs as grantor trusts
    4. Divorce
    5. Other tax issues
  3. Alternative methods for multi-generational gifting and long-term planning

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the critical considerations for the use of SLATs in estate planning?
  • How can you incorporate flexibility and options into your SLATs, and what are the pitfalls to avoid?
  • What is the impact of joint property? What if the property is not held in the desired grantor's name?
  • What tax issues arise in the use of SLATs under current tax law?
  • How does a divorce impact SLATs?
  • What are other methods available for multi-generational gifting and long-term planning?

An encore presentation featuring Live Q&A.

Faculty

Braverman, Diedre
Diedre Wachbrit Braverman

Attorney
Braverman Law Group

Ms. Braverman practices in the areas of estate planning, special needs planning, asset protection, elder law and...  |  Read More

DiPietro, Samuel
Samuel M. DiPietro

Associate
Spencer Fane

Mr. DiPietro collaborates with families and their advisors to create customized estate plans that consider the specific...  |  Read More

Frandsen, Brad
Brad Frandsen

Senior Vice President and Wealth Strategies Advisor
Bank of America

Mr. Frandsen is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Strategies Advisor at Bank of America Private Bank in Phoenix,...  |  Read More

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