CLEThe National Business Institute is holding a conference entitled, Estate Planning and Administration for Family Businesses, on Friday November 16, 2018 at the Hilton Garden Inn Columbus/Polaris in  Columbus, Ohio. Provided below is a description of the event:

Program Description

How to Protect the Family Business Assets and Ensure a Smooth Transfer

Estate planning and administration for business owners requires specialized knowledge and tools to ensure the best client representation. This legal course will give you the knowledge and skills to preserve the legacy your clients have worked their entire lives to build. Explore the tools and opportunities unique to family businesses to help make good sense of difficult legal and financial policies. Learn what you need to know about taxes, wills, trusts, valuations, and other key elements. Help your clients take care of their estate planning and administration needs and their family’s future – register today!

Explore the deciding factors in choosing the right business entity when planning ownership transfer.

Take full advantage of valuation discounts.

Employ all available tools for transferring assets and preserving wealth.

Tackle top methods of business valuation and their consequences in estate planning and tax.

Learn how to navigate an estate administration that involves a family business: with or without express instructions for transfer in a will or other transfer documents.

Protect the value of the family business: help executors act in their full authority and in the best interests of the estate.

Who Should Attend

This basic-to-intermediate level seminar is designed for:

Attorneys

Estate Planners

Accountants and CPAs

Tax Professionals

Trust Officers

Paralegals

Course Content

Determining the Consequences of Business Entity Choice (LLCs, S-Corps and C-Corps, Corps, etc.)

Medicaid and LTC Planning: A How-to Guide

Transferring the Business Within the Family

Business Value: Determining, Preserving and Maximizing

Tax Considerations in Transferring a Family Business

Legal Ethics

How to Navigate a Family Business Through Probate

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Legal Education – CLE: 6.00 *

International Association for Continuing Education Training – IACET: 0.60

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy – CPE for Accountants/NASBA: 7.00 *

* denotes specialty credits

Photo of Gerry W. Beyer Gerry W. Beyer

Dr. Gerry W. Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2005 as the first holder of the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professorship. Previously, Prof. Beyer taught as a professor or visiting professor at several other…

Dr. Gerry W. Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2005 as the first holder of the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professorship. Previously, Prof. Beyer taught as a professor or visiting professor at several other law schools including Boston College, Boston University, The Ohio State University, Southern Methodist University, the University of New Mexico, Santa Clara University, St. Mary’s University, and La Trobe University in Australia.

Prof. Beyer is admitted to practice in Texas, Illinois (inactive), Ohio (inactive) and before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Prof. Beyer is the recipient of dozens of outstanding and distinguished faculty awards from three law schools including the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the most prestigious university-wide teaching award at Texas Tech, the 2015 President’s Academic Achievement Award, and the Outstanding (Law) Researcher Award in 2013 and 2017.

As a state and nationally recognized expert in estate planning, Prof. Beyer is a highly sought after lecturer. He presents dozens of continuing legal education presentations each year for many national, state, and local bar associations, universities, and civic groups. In recognition of his expertise and contributions to the legal profession, the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils inducted him into the Estate Planning Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2022, Prof. Beyer was awarded the Distinguished Probate Attorney Lifetime Achievement Award by the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section of State Bar of Texas.

Prof. Beyer is the editor of the most popular estate planning blawg in the nation which after being named for five consecutive years to the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 was awarded Hall of Fame status in 2015.

Prof. Beyer is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles focusing on various aspects of estate planning, including a two-volume treatise on Texas wills law, an estate planning law school casebook, and the Wills, Trusts, and Estates volume of the Examples & Explanations series. He has four times won awards from the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property magazine for his writing. He is one of the most often downloaded law authors on the Social Science Research Network with a ranking in the top .001%.  Prof. Beyer is the Editor-in-Chief of the REPTL Reporter, the official journal of the largest section of the State Bar of Texas, the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section.

Prof. Beyer serves as a mentor to many students and various law school organizations as well participating regularly in pro bono activities. He is the advisor for the Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal and its annual seminar, the Black Law Students Association, and the Estate and Property Law Society.

Prof. Beyer received his J.D. from the Ohio State University (summa cum laude) and his LL.M. and J.SD. degrees from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Order of the Coif, an Academic Fellow and former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the American Law Institute, and was appointed by the Uniform Law Commission as the Reporter for the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act and the Integration of Probate and Non-Probate Transfers Study Committee.

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