Practical measures that can help avoid pitfalls.

It may help to curtail elder financial abuse.

Using a special trust advisor.

Navigating religious conditional bequests.

Charles A. Redd describes why the current environment may actually be a boon for estate planners and their clients.

Robert F. Sharpe, Jr. explains how the current confluence of health, economic and social dislocation has impacted philanthropy in the United States.

David A. Handler and Alison E. Lothes highlight the most important tax law developments of the past month.

Legal editor Anna Sulkin discusses this month's cover.

Disputes over tangible personal property are one of the top three causes of estate administration conflict.