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Navigating the Intersection of Estate Planning, Divorce, and Business Law 2020

Product ID: CA2991D
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

Help your clients avoid more conflict

With multiple issues to address in the dissolution of a marriage, it can be easy to overlook important considerations in unfamiliar practice areas. However, if documents like operating or marital property agreements aren’t drafted with other factors in mind, divorced couples may find themselves facing additional legal headaches down the road.

Navigating the Intersection of Estate Planning, Divorce, and Business Law will cover the critical overlaps between estate planning, family law, and business law, so you can provide more effective, comprehensive representation to your clients.

Handling estate division

In the midst of a divorce, your clients have a million things going through their minds – and estate planning probably isn’t at the top of their list. Nevertheless, there are important issues that need to be considered at each stage of a dissolving union. Discuss what actions need to be taken to protect and maintain control over your clients’ assets pre-divorce and while the action is pending. Post-divorce, know what your clients should revisit and update in their estate plans.

When personal and professional ties mix

When a marriage breaks up, the ownership and control of a business can also be jeopardized. Learn what documents and clauses best protect your clients’ business interests in the event of divorce. Analyze how estate planning and divorce are impacted when a party is CEO or shareholder of a business. Also discuss how family business succession planning should be handled to best protect the business.

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Help your clients avoid more conflict

With multiple issues to address in the dissolution of a marriage, it can be easy to overlook important considerations in unfamiliar practice areas. However, if documents like operating or marital property agreements aren’t drafted with other factors in mind, divorced couples may find themselves facing additional legal headaches down the road.

Navigating the Intersection of Estate Planning, Divorce, and Business Law will cover the critical overlaps between estate planning, family law, and business law, so you can provide more effective, comprehensive representation to your clients.

Handling estate division

In the midst of a divorce, your clients have a million things going through their minds – and estate planning probably isn’t at the top of their list. Nevertheless, there are important issues that need to be considered at each stage of a dissolving union. Discuss what actions need to be taken to protect and maintain control over your clients’ assets pre-divorce and while the action is pending. Post-divorce, know what your clients should revisit and update in their estate plans.

When personal and professional ties mix

When a marriage breaks up, the ownership and control of a business can also be jeopardized. Learn what documents and clauses best protect your clients’ business interests in the event of divorce. Analyze how estate planning and divorce are impacted when a party is CEO or shareholder of a business. Also discuss how family business succession planning should be handled to best protect the business.

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Program Chairs and Presenters

Linda S. Balisle
Balisle Family Law Legal Counsel, S.C.
Madison

Margaret W. Hickey
Becker, Hickey & Poster, S.C.
Milwaukee

Presenters

Kathryn M. Grigg
Axley Brynelson LLP
Madison

Aviva Meridian Kaiser
State Bar of Wisconsin
Madison

Jessica A. Liebau
Wessels & Liebau LLC
Mequon

Gregory M. Monday
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, S.C.
Madison

Mark J. Rogers
Angermeier & Rogers LLP
Milwaukee

8:00 a.m. : Registration

8:30 a.m. : Estate Planning and Divorce

  • Pre-divorce planning
  • Post-divorce planning
  • While the action is pending: durable powers of attorney, changing beneficiaries, and limitations on actions with or without a temporary order

Margaret W. Hickey, Mark J. Rogers

9:55 a.m. : Ethics Counsel Reaction

Avivia Meridian Kaiser

10:00 a.m. : Break

10:15 a.m. : Public Benefit Considerations in Divorce

  • How to amplify income available using public benefits
  • What health benefits are available post-divorce to parties with disabilities?
  • Are there benefits to consider for children?

Jessica A. Liebau

11:10 a.m. : Ethics Counsel Reaction

Avivia Meridian Kaiser

11:15 a.m. :Panel Discussion

  • Best practices for estate planning changes during divorce
  • Public benefits planning during or after a divorce
  • Things we wish we had known earlier in our practice

Aviva Meridian Kaiser

Margaret W. Hickey, Jessica A. Liebau, Mark J. Rogers

12:00 p.m. : Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m. : Business Counsel and Divorce

  • Document drafting: operating agreements and shareholder agreements
  • Advisor during the divorce: who is the client?
  • Discovery obligations

Kathryn M. Grigg

1:50 p.m. : Family Businesses

  • Succession planning: pre-divorce, during divorce, post-divorce
  • Documents and clauses

Gregory M. Monday

2:40 p.m. : Ethics Counsel Reaction

Avivia Meridian Kaiser

2:45 p.m. : Break

3:00 p.m. : Treatment of Gifted and Inherited Interests in Divorce

  • Case law analysis post Derr v. Derr
  • Gifted or inherited business interests
  • Trust distributions: asset or income?

Linda S. Balisle

3:50 p.m. : In Conclusion & In Practice: Ethics Issues

  • Can I do estate planning for a couple and represent one later in a divorce?
  • Business Counsel – when a CEO/shareholder is getting a divorce
  • Representing the business and family members in estate planning

Aviva Meridian Kaiser

4:40 p.m. : Program Concludes

Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.

  • Gain perspective on how estate planning, family law, and business issues intersect, so you can provide more comprehensive representation
  • Draft stronger agreements by understanding potential problems in other practice areas
  • Learn what to do if your client dies in the middle of a divorce
  • Understand how public benefits can be impacted by a divorce
  • Family law attorneys
  • Estate planning lawyers
  • Business lawyers
  • General practitioners

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