Estate Planning

If adopted, they would curb minority discounts.

Changing definitions can impact how advisors provide services and assist clients with estate and trust matters

Donations for public enjoyment

Maybe you can have your cake and eat it too?

David J. Feder, associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles and Robert H. Sitkoff, John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.

Karen J. Sneddon, Professor of Law at Mercer Law School in Macon, Ga.

Deborah S. Gordon, Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia

Gerry W. Beyer, Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock, Texas and Brooke Dacus, assistant district attorney, Nueces County, Texas

Today, the estate planner needs to master two new protocols that didn’t exist three decades ago, when I started my law practice. In 1984, even with a Jules Verne-like imagination, it would have been hard to conjecture about these two new...