Kirk Stange and Jillian Wood host webinar on: "Strategies for Attacking or Defending Trusts"

CLAYTON, Mo. - Aug. 22, 2016 - PRLog -- St. Louis divorce and family law attorney (http://www.stangelawfirm.com/Divorce-Separation/Divorce-FAQs/Clayton-Divorce-Lawyers.shtml), Kirk Stange, Founding Partner of Stange Law Firm, PC and Jillian Wood, Partner will be hosting a webinar and Q&A on November 11, 2016 for Strafford Publications. (http://www.stangelawfirm.com/Family-Law-in-the-News/) The webinar is titled, "Divorce Property Division and Trust Assets: Strategies for Attacking or Defending Trusts". The discussion topics are: discovering trust assets, navigating evidentiary issues and available remedies, and joining trusts in divorce proceedings.

The 90-minute CLE webinar will prepare family law practitioners with best practices to represent the interests of divorcing parties who have an interest in or seek to claim an interest in a spouse's trust. Trusts present unique challenges when classifying and dividing marital assets in a divorce.

Counsel must discover the existence of a spouse's interest, the type of interest, and value of that interest in the trust. Counsel must decide whether to join the trust or trustee as a party to the divorce proceeding. Counsel must also determine when to attack a trust, how to defend a trust, and what remedies are available. Together Kirk, Jillian, and Jeff Vandrew Jr., an estate attorney from NJ, will all discuss ways to discover the trust and classify the beneficiary's interest in the trust as marital property, methods for reaching or protecting the beneficiary's assets, remedies available, and key evidentiary issues.

The topics will be discussed in this order during the panel:

·        Types of trusts

·        Discovering trust assets

·        Classifying the trust interest as marital property

·        Ways to reach trust assets or protect beneficiary's assets

·        Joining the trust or trustee as a party

·        Key evidentiary issues

·        Remedies

The panel will also review and discuss three key issues:

·        What are the best approaches for counsel to discover the type of interest a party has in a trust?

·        What are the methods available to reach a party's interest in the trust and to defend against an attempted attack on the trust?

·        What are the key evidentiary issues in successfully attacking a trust or defending the trust from attack?

The webinar panel is intended for current and pursuing family law attorneys in the states of AK, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, KY, ME, MN, MO, MT, ND, NM, NY, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WY. Strafford webinar courses and seminars are typically worth 1.5 CLE credit hours, depending on State requirements.

Kirk and Illinois family law attorney (http://www.stangelawfirm.com/Family-Law-Matters/), Jillian are both very excited to be a part of this panel, and to be able to share their knowledge and personal experiences in Family Law with others who are beginning to do the same thing.

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