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  • videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month April 29, 2026 @ 1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Estate Planning
  • schedule 90 minutes

Tax Apportionment in Estate Planning: Strategies for Estate, Gift, Income, GST and Retirement Assets

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE/CPE webinar will prepare estate planning counsel to draft tax apportionment clauses that preserve dispositive provisions in the client's estate plan. Our experienced panelists will outline specific techniques for designing apportionment clauses within all tax frameworks and for retirement assets.

Description

Tax apportionment is one of the most important aspects of the estate plan. However, it is also one of the most challenging—and drafting mistakes can have unexpected and drastic consequences to the client's dispositive provisions. 

Counsel must be able to create tax apportionment clauses that work for the client's specific needs and protect their overall disposition goals without reliance on boilerplate provisions. Even in this generous federal estate tax environment, counsel must consider how these clauses affect estate tax liability as well as the gift, income, and generation-skipping taxes.

Additionally, some states and the District of Columbia still have very active estate tax regimes. Attorneys in states that do not have an estate tax must maintain their knowledge base for out-of-state clients or potential moves by clients to a state with an estate tax. Counsel must give special consideration to how apportionment clauses affect retirement plan assets.

Listen as our experienced panel discusses the sources of law regarding apportionment of federal and state taxes affecting estates. The panel will also offer drafting techniques regarding apportionment clauses as they affect the estate, gift, income, and generation skipping tax as well as retirement assets.

Presented By

Jennifer L. Campbell
Counsel
Venable LLP

Ms. Campbell advises high-net-worth individuals, fiduciaries, and business owners on complex estate planning trust and probate administration, and related tax matters. She is certified as a specialist in estate planning and trust and probate law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and she provides strategic counsel on wealth transfer, tax-efficient gifting, and pre-litigation dispute resolution. Ms. Campbell draws on decades of experience across legal, banking, and wealth management sectors to help clients navigate sensitive personal and financial matters with clarity and confidence. She focuses her practice on estate planning, trust and probate administration, lifetime gifting, and related tax matters. Ms. Campbell counsels high-net-worth individuals, families, fiduciaries, and business owners on strategies for preserving wealth and managing risk across generations. She regularly advises clients on the design and implementation of sophisticated estate plans, including revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and customized gifting strategies involving charitable vehicles, intentionally defective grantor trusts, and spousal lifetime access trusts.

Monika J. Jain
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

Ms. Jain is an attorney in Holland & Knight's New York Private Wealth Services Group. She advises and represents high-net-worth individuals and families regarding estate and tax planning, wealth transfer and asset protection, business succession planning, estate and trust administration, contested probate matters, matrimonial agreements and charitable giving.

Lawrence M. Lipoff
Director
CohnReznick LLP

With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Lipoff specializes in the delivery of domestic and international private client services to enable high-net-worth individuals and families to maximize their new or generational wealth. He provides strategic advice to his clients and their closely held businesses in the areas of income tax planning and compliance, estate planning and administration services, as well as family structure consulting. Through many years in practice, he synthesized the work of various related professionals, and their firms integrate several planning strategies into solutions that maximize value. Mr. Lipoff is a frequent lecturer and author of articles published through professional forums on topics including domestic and international - estate planning and fiduciary income taxation including constructive attribution rules for foreign trusts, Forms 3520 & 3520-A, Graegin Loans, business succession, generation-skipping transfers, Chapter 14 and carried interest estate planning for private investment fund principals, preferred freeze partnerships, and private placement life insurance.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • CPE credit is not available on recordings.

  • BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 90-minute webinar is accredited for 1.5 CPE credits.

  • BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, April 29, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

I. Source of law

A. Federal

B. State

II. Drafting considerations

A. Estate tax

B. Gift tax

C. Income tax

D. Generation-skipping tax

III. Apportionment clauses and retirement assets

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What drafting techniques should be implemented when creating tax apportionment clauses within the estate, gift, income, and generation-skipping tax regimes?
  • How must state estate tax regimes be considered when drafting tax apportionment clauses?
  • How do tax apportionment clauses affect retirement plan assets, and what drafting techniques should be considered?
  • What are the sources of law for tax apportionment? 
  • How do portability and/or marital trusts affect tax clauses and apportionment?
  • How does distribution to grandchildren, specific bequests, or charities impact tax clauses and apportionment?

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the sources of law for tax apportionment
  • Ascertain tax apportionment clauses within the estate, gift, income, and generation-skipping tax regimes used in estate plans
  • Understand how state estate tax regimes are considered when drafting tax apportionment clauses
  • Recognize how distributions affect tax clauses and apportionment
  • Field of Study: Taxes
  • Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
  • Advance Preparation: None
  • Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
  • Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
  • Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
  • Prerequisite:

    Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of estate, gift and trust taxation including various trusts types, the unified credit, and portability.

BARBRI, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Credits. Complaints regarding registered sponsons may be submitted to NASBA through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

IRS Approved Provider

BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).

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