Family Estate Planning for New Jersey Attorneys

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Practice Areas:

Wills, Trusts, & Estates

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Attend this program and learn how attorneys can provide protection for their client’s family through basic estate documents, wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, as well as how their clients can protect those important to them who may not fit within the traditional legal molds such as significant others, friends, and pets.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the typical legal documents that make up an estate plan
  • Explore drafting basic legal documents in an estate plan
  • Learn how to include and protect non-family members and our non-human family members in estate documents
  • Discover methods of passing property at death and how they affect estate planning
  • Learn how attorneys can design a tax efficient plan

About the Presenters

Chris Little Simcox, Esq.

Begley, Carlin and Mandio

Practice Area: Family Law (+ 2 other areas)

Chris Little Simcox, Esquire, has practiced in all areas of family law, wills, trusts, guardianships, estate administration, and bankruptcy for the past 25 years. She is licensed to practice both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She was employed for several years at the Bucks County Domestic Relations Section as a hearing officer and then as an establishment supervisor. She has expertise in handling complex child/spousal support cases. She is also a tenured professor teaching law in the Bucks County Community College Paralegal Studies program. She also taught for Penn State University's Justice and Safety Institute for several years, which was ...

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