Community Property

The Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning is the country’s largest and leading conference for estate planners, attorneys, trust officers, accountants, financial planners, insurance advisors, and wealth management professionals. …

This presentation will cover the use and operation of joint revocable trusts in general, for both taxable and non-taxable estates, and will also examine the Alaska Community Property Trust, and explain why it’s a relatively simple thing to…

For decades, the primary focus of estate planning lectures and publications was about preserving the maximum value of an estate, primarily through estate tax planning.

This Article analyzes Alaska's new community property law, which permits married residents to elect a community property regime. This Article analyzes the tax aspects when a resident establishes a community property trust. Specifically,…

The state of Alaska has adopted a new community property law which a married couple may elect to treat all of their assets or specific assets as community property. This article discusses the estate planning uses and implications of…

The Alaska Community Property Act, signed into law in May, allows a married Alaskan or an Alaskan married couple to elect for some or all of his, her or their property to become community property, and permits married persons not resident…