This presentation will cover ways in which will contests, challenges to trusts, and other disputes in estate and trust administration can be thwarted and resolved without lengthy court battles.
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Mr. Blattmachr is a Principal in ILS Management, LLC and a retired member of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York, NY and of the Alaska, California and New York Bars. He is recognized as one of the most creative trusts and estates lawyers in the country and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He has written and lectured extensively on estate and trust taxation and charitable giving.
Mr. Blattmachr graduated from Columbia University School of Law cum laude, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and received his A.B. degree from Bucknell University, majoring in mathematics. He has served as a lecturer-in-law of the Columbia University School of Law and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School in its Masters in Tax Program (LLM). He is a former chairperson of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and of several committees of the American Bar Association. Mr. Blattmachr is a Fellow and a former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and past chair of its Estate and Gift Tax Committee. He is author or co-author of eight books and more than 500 articles on estate planning and tax topics.
Among professional activities, which are too numerous to list, Mr. Blattmachr has served as an Advisor on The American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, Trusts 3rd; and as a Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation and a member of the American Bar Foundation.
Richard W. Hompesch, II is a graduate of the University of Montana (B.A. 1978 and J.D. 1983) and New York University (LL.M. in Taxation 1984). In 1984 he persuaded his wife to move to Fairbanks, Alaska for “two years” with their two infant children. He opened his own law office in 1988.
Today Hompesch Evans & Averett, P.C. employs four attorneys, his wife who is an IRS enrolled agent, and three legal assistants. The firm’s practice is limited to trusts and estates and taxation. Rich is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the Alaska Probate Rules Committee, and past president of the Fairbanks Estate Planning Council. He has been a speaker at a number of continuing legal education programs for the Alaska Bar Association and one for the Connecticut Bar Association. For three years he taught business law as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Alaska.
In 1996 Rich spent a week in the Cook Islands learning about foreign asset protection trusts. In 1997 Rich lobbied for the Alaska Trust Act which was made Alaska the first state to permit domestic self-settled asset protection trusts. Rich was the principal author of The Revised Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Act which the Alaska legislature passed in 1997 in response to the “check the box” regulations. Since 1997 he has worked on legislation with other Alaska attorneys to make Alaska the premier jurisdiction in the United States for trusts and estate planning. He is the author or co-author of five articles on Alaska trusts and one article on estate planning document assembly software published in Trusts & Estates magazine.
