2025 Breakout 1A | Estate planning for the blended family

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A discussion of the planning issues and pitfalls that can be encountered in estate planning for spouses in "blended" families-where each spouse may have children from prior marriages/relationships.

Learning objectives:

• Issues in picking successor "decision makers"—for durable powers, medical directives, and successor personal representatives and trustees.
• How do you protect each spouse from controversies with children, and protect each spouse's children from the surviving spouse?
• Issues with joint revocable trusts.

Speaker: Edward F. Reilly, Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., Clayton

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