A Practical Guide to Trusts WEBCAST - Washington Society of CPAs

Overview

This course provides financial professionals with a comprehensive understanding of trusts and their role in estate planning. Participants will learn how to determine whether a trust aligns with a client’s financial goals and explore strategies to maximize tax efficiency. The course covers various trust structures and their potential to reduce income, estate, and generation-skipping taxes at both federal and state levels. Additionally, it delves into trustee responsibilities and the benefits of irrevocable life insurance trusts and dynasty trusts. With a focus on practical applications and real-world scenarios, this course equips you with the expertise to navigate probate avoidance, streamline asset distribution, and manage complex tax considerations. Whether working with revocable or irrevocable trusts, participants will gain the tools to enhance their clients’ financial well-being across generations.

Highlights

Trustee responsibilities and trust administration. Strategies for probate avoidance and efficient asset distribution. Tax treatment of revocable living trusts. Marital deductions and bypass trusts. Uses of irrevocable trusts in estate planning. Benefits of irrevocable life insurance trusts. Multi-generational wealth planning with dynasty trusts. Overview of estate planning tools: GRIT, GRAT, GRUT, and QPRT.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, EAs, attorneys, bankers, and financial planners.

Objectives

Identify the responsibilities and duties of trustees in trust administration. Apply trust strategies to help clients avoid probate and efficiently transfer assets. Analyze the tax implications of revocable living trusts, including income, gift, and estate tax considerations. Explain the role of marital deductions and evaluate the use of bypass trusts. Determine when irrevocable trusts are beneficial for estate planning. Assess the advantages and limitations of irrevocable life insurance trusts. Describe the characteristics and benefits of dynasty trusts in multi-generational wealth planning. Evaluate the effectiveness of estate planning tools such as GRIT, GRAT, GRUT, and QPRT.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Fees

Credits

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Fields of Study

Leader(s):

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

Leader Bios

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

4.94 stars out of 5 - speaker rating for 2019

“Art Werner is a great speaker. Smart and entertaining.”
“Very well done! [Art Werner is] engaging and answered questions.”
“Great use of examples [by Art Werner], made the day fly by.” - past attendees

Art Werner is currently a shareholder in and is the President of the lecture firm Werner - Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s areas of expertise 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 located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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, Enrolled Agents, Insurance Agents, and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2,000 eight-hour seminars over the past 20 years. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Werner was 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.

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