LAW 433P - Trusts and Estates Practicum.

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental lawyering skills associated with a trusts and estates practice. The course focuses on estate planning for persons of little to moderate wealth (specifically, persons whose wealth falls below the thresholds at which the estate and gift taxes apply). All topics will be considered through the lens of simulated practice experiences, in which students will interview and counsel clients, draft estate planning documents, draft letters to clients, counsel executors and trustees, etc. No background in either income taxation or estate and gift taxation is necessary. Two hours. Danforth Pre- or co-requisite: Decedents’ Estates and Trusts.