Estate Planning for Family Lawyers
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $184
Non-Member Price: $230
Product Code: ON116026
Areas of Law: Estate Law, Family
CLE Credits
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.4 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 2.4). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 2.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Faculty
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Mark R. Friedman, Esq.
- Friedman Law, Bridgewaterpractices estate planning, elder law and special needs law with Friedman Law in Bridgewater, New Jersey. His work includes creating special needs trusts for disabled clients so litigation proceedings, child support and other payments will not disrupt public benefits; helping seniors plan to prevent long-term care costs from wiping out their savings; and estate planning in first marriages, second marriages and for unmarried clients.
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nAdmitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Mr. Friedman is Past Chair and former Roundtable Coordinator and Legislative Coordinator of the New Jersey State Bar Association Elder and Disability Law Section. He was Somerset County representative to and Executive Committee member of the NJSBA Young Lawyers, and served on the NJSBA Blue Ribbon Commission on Unmet Legal Needs. Prior to joining the firm Mr. Friedman was a Contributing Editor for The FCPA Blog in Singapore, ROS, where he provided analysis on compliance, corruption and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He is the author of articles including “Modern Estate Planning for Same-Sex Couples” (New Jersey Law Journal, October 14, 2013).
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nMr. Friedman received his B.A. from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and his J.D. from New York University Law School, where he was selected as an inaugural Fellow with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, which sends law and medical students to Germany and Poland to study their profession’s role in the Nazi genocide. He also created the Darfur Victims Project at NYU, leading a team of law students in support of litigation before the International Criminal Court.
n(9/23) - Marisa Lepore Hovanec, Esq.
- Hovanec & Divito, LLC, Westfield
Many divorce cases involve the sale of the couple’s real estate. This program will be a crash course for family law attorneys about estate law and estate planning topics that can come up in family law cases involving divorce, prenuptial agreements, equitable distribution and child custody.
Topics include:
- How to update estate documents during and after divorce
- Elective share / equitable distribution "black hole" and recent changes to law
- Protecting assets through a pre-nuptial agreement vs. a trust
- How inheritances and trusts are treated in divorce
- Special needs divorce / divorces involving kids with disabilities
- Medicaid asset protection divorces
- Estate planning when there are kids from a prior marriage.