Legal Research Guides by Course - Estate Planning
Course Description
This course introduces students to a tax-oriented approach to estate planning. Student will study the various taxes that impact the orderly transmission of property from one generation to the next, as well as selected taxa-minimization strategies. Topics covered include the impact of excise taxes, such as gift, estate, inheritance, or generation-skipping taxes, and income taxes on estate planning and strategies for using gifts, inter vivos trusts, and testamentary trusts to minimize taxes. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: Basic Federal Income Taxation; Estates and Trusts highly recommended before or concurrent with this course. (3 credits)
Faculty Who Teach This Course:
- William J. Brown (adjunct professor)
- Martha W. Jordan (Professor of Law)
- W. Robinson (adjunct professor)
Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:
Print Collection:
KF390.A4 Works on the Aged - Older People - Retired Persons
KF746-KF750 Estate Planning
KF6571-KF6590 Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes
KFP140 Pennsylvania Estate Planning
KFP482 Pennsylvania Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes
Legal Research Databases:
- Bloomberg BNA Online - Tax and Accounting Library
- CCH Library - Intelliconnect - Tax News, Federal Tax & Tax Treatises
- RIA Checkpoint
- Westlaw and Lexis
- Bloomberg Law
- Legal Scholarship Network
- Hein Online
- Tax Analysts
- LoisLaw - Treatises - Estate Planning Library
- Estate Planning Center (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/estate-planning-center.html
- Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/estate.html
- Inheritance Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/inheritance-law.html
- Estate Planning Links - http://www.estateplanninglinks.com/
- Estate Planning (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/estate_planning
- Estate Planning: an Overview (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/estate-planning-an-overview
- Estate, Gift and Inheritance Taxes (Nolo) - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/estate-tax
- Legal Research for Estate Planners - http://www.jasonhavens.net/
- Estate Planning.com - http://www.estateplanning.com/
- Trusts & Estates (Wealth Management) - http://wealthmanagement.com/welcome-trusts-estates
- ABA Estate Planning Answers -
- Dan Brady's Basic Estate Planning Concepts - http://www.danbrady.com/index.html
- Wealth Transfer Taxes: How do the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes work? (Tax Policy Center) - http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/estate/what-is.cfm
DCLI Webpage Links:
- Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
- Legal Research Guides: Law of the Aged, Tax Law
prepared by: Patricia Horvath
11/8/2012
