Practitioner's Perspective: Insight from Estate Planning Attorneys, The
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Donovan, Mary A.
McGarry, Craig V.
Sulentic, John N.
Issue Date
2010
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43
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|We are moving in the direction from an academic level of discussion to more of what I would call the real world discussion. Estate planning is very practical. It is about people, it is about their wealth, and it is about decision making. As well as, if you will, the big picture policy decisions. So we are moving in the direction of the trenches in the practitioner level. And we have three very distinguished practitioners from the fields of estate planning and wealth transfer. And I think you will see in some of the discussions we have had a little preview among ourselves about what our commentators are going to say and I think you see us leading into a discussion similar to that of our TePoel lecturer, Professor Caron, with regard to the estate tax uncertainties. I think you may get a little preview of that in some of the comments of our presenters upcoming. I cannot resist saying, with regard to the last presentation, that my brother-in-law, a 1962 Creighton law grad, has been exclusively involved in representing defendants in criminal tax prosecutions. And at least in my day of law school, which was many years ago, the question was asked what is the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance? And in my day we had a simple answer: ten years in jail. I realize that is oversimplifying that topic...
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43 Creighton L. Rev. 657 (2009-2010)
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Creighton University School of Law