Estate Planning Monthly: News, Views, and Practical Strategies – February 2026 Divorce and Trust

February 2026 WEBINAR will address a topic that practitioners are grappling with: TRUST PLANNING AND THE RISK OF DIVORCE. Different and practical views on planning and drafting to both help clients and protect practitioners will be presented. There are many ways you can address divorce in a SLAT plan: Do nothing e.g. non-reciprocal SLATs; Remove spouse beneficiary post-divorce; Use a floating spouse clause; Split a SLAT with ½ a floating and ½ not; SPAT; DAPT or hybrid DAPT; and more. Practitioners can protect themselves when doing SLAT-Like plans: by presenting the client with drafting options, use careful retainer agreement provisions, and use protective memorandum.

THE SERIES: Estate planning today demands more than technical fluency—it requires the ability to adapt sophisticated strategies to real world client dynamics, evolving statutes, volatile markets, and the practical constraints of administration. This new monthly webinar series brings those realities to the forefront with candid, practical practice centered discussions each month. Each will be grounded in real issues practitioners confront. We’ll address strategies, pitfalls, structures, and emerging developments shaping current estate planning. Email us about issues you face and we will consider them in future monthly programs. This series is designed for advisers who want to refine their judgment, sharpen their planning instincts, and stay ahead of both technical and practical developments. You will leave each webinar with actionable insights, refined techniques, and more.

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Speakers: Martin Shenkman, Esq. and Alan Gassman, Esq.