Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Brian Cororve (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Taxation
Time: 7:30p-9:30p W Location: 200
Course Outline: Postmortem Estate Planning: Covers issues associated with estate administration with a goal toward minimization of income and estate taxes. Covers the estate tax system generally, income taxation of estates and planning opportunities associated therewith, issues associated with funding of pecuniary and residual bequests, disclaimers, special use valuation, and estate tax deferral techniques. Examines the use of Trusts and Partnerships in removing assets from exposure to estate tax and distribution and release agreements. Course uses material developed by the instructor, primarily from current advance estate planning and probate seminar material.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
** Students who have already taken course Number 5223, Post Mortem Estate Planning, cannot register for this course. **
This is an LL.M class, and JD students may register, if space is available.
Prerequisites: Federal Income Tax AND Trusts & Wills are strongly recommended.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
No book required for this course
Course Materials: Materials to be provided by professor.
