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Description
There are many reasons accountants, trust and estate advisers, and tax practitioners need to understand APTs. They are often the professionals most familiar with a client's financial exposure. Advisers may act as a trustee, and they will most likely be responsible for filing the related income tax returns. Placing assets in an APT can protect from creditors, lawsuits, and future ex-spouses.
Initially, a grantor could not be the beneficiary of an APT. Beginning with Alaska in 1997 and followed by additional states, including Delaware, Nevada, and South Dakota, now 17 states allow these self-settled trusts. Along with offering protection of assets, there are downsides to these trusts, including the fact that they are irrevocable. Additionally, these trusts should be in place before necessary because they are subject to clawback provisions. Properly structured and administered, these trusts are a valuable estate planning tool that can protect vulnerable assets and ensure the transfer of these assets to the desired beneficiaries.
Listen as our panel of trust and estate experts explains how to identify self-settled trusts, the benefits and caveats of these trusts, and how to form and fund a DAPT to limit asset exposure and potential loss of assets.
Presented By

Mr. Edmondson practices in partnership, corporate, and individual tax planning; business transactions including mergers and acquisitions; business planning; tax controversy; estate and wealth transfer planning; probate; estate and trust litigation; asset protection; and charitable planning. He has conducted, authored, and directed numerous seminars for professional, academic, and civic groups on taxation, business, asset protection and estate planning. Mr. Edmondson works closely with clients to develop and implement such strategies.

Mr. Wolf is a member of the Florida and New York Bars. He has more than 40 years of experience as a trusts and estates lawyer and practices in the areas of estate, tax, asset protection and business succession planning for high net worth families. Mr. Wolf provides sophisticated transfer and generation-skipping tax strategies to successful individuals and advises closely held corporations, partnerships and other business entities on succession and asset protection planning structures.
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
Date + Time
- event
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
Outline
- APTs: introduction
- Self-settled trusts
- What is a DAPT?
- Arguments for APTs
- Arguments against APTs
- Forming and funding a DAPT
- State commonalities and differences
- Recent cases
- Alternatives to DAPTs
Benefits
The panel will review these and other critical issues:
- Arguments for and against APTs
- Identifying clients who could benefit from an APT
- Differences among states offering APTs
- Forming and funding an APT
- Recent cases involving APTs
NASBA Details
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify specific states offering self-settled trusts
- Decide which clients could benefit the most from an APT
- Determine best assets for funding APTs
- Ascertain when caveats outweigh the benefits of these trusts
- 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 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.

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

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