2024 Comprehensive Estate Planning: Administration & Postmortem Strategies
Overview
Navigating the complexities of estate and trust administration is a vital skill for professionals, who play an integral role in the administration team. This comprehensive course is designed to equip professionals with a thorough understanding of their responsibilities and the processes involved in estate administration, enhancing their ability to address estate settlement issues effectively. Participants will be provided with a detailed overview of the professional’s role in estate and trust administration, emphasizing practical insights and strategies for managing assets, addressing the legitimacy of debts and creditors, and ensuring the proper distribution of assets.
**Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
Highlights
- Introduction to Estate Administration
- How to Read a last will and testament
- Understanding the Entities
- Administration the Estate and Orderly Process
- The Probate process and the courts
- Special Issues in Estate Administration
- Postmortem Issues Regarding Income Taxation of Descendants and Estates
- Post Mortem Opportunities on the Estate Income Tax Return
- Available Post Mortem Estate Tax Elections
- Portability Election
- Disclaimers
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
CPAs, EAs, and attorneys
Objectives
- Recognize the key elements of Estate Administration
- Identify the terms of a last will and testament
- Recognize the differences between the various entities
- Identify the estate administration procedures
- Recognize the issues in the probate process and the courts
- Identify special issues in the estate administration process
- Recognize key considerations in postmortem estate planning for effective client guidance
- Describe the implications of alternative valuation dates on estate tax planning
- Discuss strategies for optimizing savings bond interest acceleration in estate planning
- Identify opportunities and requirements for installment payments of estate taxes
- Explain the strategic use of QTIP elections under IRC §2056(b)(7)
- Analyze basis issues in postmortem planning to maximize tax benefits
- Discuss the implications and process of estate fiscal year and accounting method elections
- Apply planning considerations for qualified plans and IRAs to enhance client outcomes
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network (ACPEN).
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Arthur Werner, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd
Arthur Joseph Werner, JD, MS (Taxation), is the president and is a shareholder in the lecture firm of Werner-Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s lecture topic specialties include business, tax, financial and estate planning for high net worth individuals. In addition, Mr. Werner is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at the Philadelphia University. Mr. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School. Mr. Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2500 eight-hour seminars over the past twenty-five years as well as numerous webinars and video presentations. Mr. Werner has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.
Non-Member Price $275.00
Member Price $225.00