Session 7: Estate Planning for Descendants
Airing on Tuesday, April 23rd @ 1 pm ET
This session is part of the InterActive Legal Academy Estate Planning Basics Series
Faculty
Teresa L. Bush Esq.Course Description
Most clients, whether married or unmarried, plan to leave their property eventually to their children. This presentation will discuss various ways of doing just that, including simple gifts to children that also plan for the possibility of a child not being alive, as well as using trusts. Trusts are often useful when the children are minors, but there are other alternatives for minors that we will cover as well. The session will also examine different ways of naming guardians for minor children, how to factor in gifts made during lifetime, and planning for other special situations.
Faculty Bios
Teresa Bush joined InterActive Legal in 2007 and serves as Director of Education and Support Services.
Ms. Bush has been licensed to practice law since 1991, and focused her practice exclusively on issues of estate and gift tax planning, probate, charitable planning, and estate and trust administration. She began her practice in a small law firm, planning for clients of all levels of wealth. Thereafter, she practiced for a number of years in the Tax Section of Kelly, Hart and Hallman, P.C. in Fort Worth, Texas, and as an estate and gift tax consultant for the Dallas office of Ernst & Young, in both cases focusing on planning for very high net worth clients.
Ms. Bush received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a research assistant for Professor Stanley M. Johanson. She studied at Edinburgh University and the London School of Economics prior to obtaining a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rice University in Houston. While studying abroad, she worked as an intern for a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
Ms. Bush taught legal research and writing as a Teaching Quizmaster in law school, and later taught estate planning extension courses for American College of Financial Services CLU candidates. She has presented several online webinars on estate planning and drafting topics, and is the author or co-author of a variety of estate planning articles.