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Modern Trusts: Roles and Responsibilities
Publish Date:
Jun 10 2020

Trusts are often used for tax efficient wealth transfer and liability protection. In exchange for these benefits, however, trusts create certain obligations. Rooted in ancient times, the rules governing trusts are not always intuitive. Understanding their genesis can help us better understand the roles and responsibilities they create and how ...

Seminar 5: Being an Effective Trustee and a Responsible Beneficiary
Publish Date:
Oct 28 2019

A trustee of family trusts must understand the legal duties and deliver them with a keen appreciation of family dynamics. We will discuss the range of trustee and beneficiary responsibilities as well as practical tips for making the trustee-beneficiary relationship work effectively. Members will share their experiences as trustees.Katherine Dunlevi...

The Engaged Beneficiary: What You Need to Know
Publish Date:
Oct 28 2019

What does it mean to be an engaged and responsible beneficiary? We will explore the roles and responsibilities of a trustee, and learn from a father-daughter team about how they make the trustee-beneficiary relationship work. We will understand the roles each party plays and how to effectively approach trust-related communications.Robert Hammett, V...

Estate Planning Considerations for the Modern Family
Publish Date:
Jul 17 2019

The traditional nuclear family is no longer the presumption. With multiple demographic trends including samesex marriages, blended families, and cohabitation alongside different paths to parenthood, including adoption and assisted reproductive technologies, there are numerous estate planning challenges that ultra-...

Entrepreneurialism Through Trusts: Including Direct Investments in Trust Structures
Publish Date:
Jul 25 2018

Many of the wealthiest and most sophisticated families are reconnecting to their family roots in entrepreneurship and are investing in, and managing, direct investments using thoughtfully designed trusts and private trust companies. In this program we explored how trusts and private trust companies can be designed in tandem to enable an afflue...

2017 Tax and Estate Update
Publish Date:
Jul 19 2017

In what is frequently our most popular Forum session, experts will share the latest income tax and transfer tax developments that family office executives need to watch for in 2017 and beyond. Our speakers will comment on the possible significant tax law changes on the horizon, including any specific tax bills that are proposed by the time of...

Making Sense of Situs for Private Family Trust Companies
Publish Date:
Mar 08 2017

This webinar analyzed the meaning and understanding of “situs” as it relates to Private Family Trust Companies, and focused specifically on the concepts of trust company situs, trust situs, and tax situs. Many people, in and out of the trust industry, utilize the term “situs” without a clear understanding of its many meanings. The speak...

2017 Estate Planning Update
Publish Date:
Feb 01 2017

FOX’s annual estate planning review session for 2017 featured Tom Abendroth of Schiff Hardin and Susan Gell Meyers of Warner, Norcross & Judd. They led FOX participants through a thoughtful discussion of some of the most important topics and developments that were covered at the 51st Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning. Key legislati...

Oversight and Governance of the Trust Company
Publish Date:
Oct 05 2016

You’ve created a great trust structure, but is the family interested and engaged? To garner buy-in, interest, and commitment from the family the trust company structure must be designed in a way that is both functional and empowering for current and rising generations. In this webinar, Thomas C. Rogerson, Senior Managing Director and Family Wealth ...

Urgent FOX Webinar - Is the Clock Ticking for Valuation Discounts? - IRC Sec. 2704
Publish Date:
Sep 07 2016

The announcement of proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 2704 has many families and their advisors scrambling to mitigate the potential impact the regulation could have on their estate planning efforts. Owners of family businesses have traditionally relied on valuation discounts to curb the estate and gift tax burden associated ...

Today’s Trustee The Art and Science of PFTC Fiduciary Responsibilities
Publish Date:
Aug 24 2016

Managing fiduciary responsibilities within a private trust company can sometimes feel like more of an art than a science. Developing effective and meaningful relationships with the beneficiaries, overseeing distributions and investment policy, understanding how and when decanting a trust is the best solution, while also being aware of the statutes ...

Breakout Session 2B: Estate Settlement Readiness
Publish Date:
Jul 20 2016

We invest a lot of time and energy figuring out the best way to pass wealth from one generation to the next. But how can anyone truly prepare for the practical realities of settling a family member’s estate while grieving and managing the impact of this loss on the family? This session will outline some of the things you can be thinking about now t...

2016 Tax and Estate Update
Publish Date:
Jul 13 2016

In what is frequently our most popular Forum session, experts will share the latest updates in estate laws and taxes that family office executives need to watch for in 2016 and beyond.