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Blank Rome partners Marilyn B. Chinitz and Sean R. Weissbart will serve as faculty for the Strafford live CLE webinar, “<a href="https://www.straffordpub.com/products/trusts-and-divorce-discovering-hidden-trusts-reaching-trust-assets-protecting-beneficiarys-interest-2025-01-14">Trusts and Divorce: Discovering Hidden Trusts, Reaching Trust Assets, Protecting Beneficiary’s Interest</a>,” taking place Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT (10:00–11:30 a.m. PDT).

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Trusts present unique challenges when classifying and dividing marital assets in a divorce. Counsel must discover the existence of a spouse’s interest, the type of interest, and the value of that interest in the trust. Many trusts in question will have been created by a third party. But if a couple is getting divorced and has made a trust during the marriage, different issues and potential pitfalls should receive special attention. Counsel must decide whether to join the trust or trustee as a party to the divorce proceeding. Counsel must also determine when to attack a trust, how to defend a trust, and what remedies are available. From the family law perspective, counsel must address and present critical evidentiary issues.

This CLE course will prepare family law practitioners with best practices to represent divorcing parties who are interested in or seek to claim an interest in a spouse’s trust. Marilyn and Sean will review how to answer the critical question of whether the trust is accessible as well as offer drafting methods to mitigate attacks on trust assets, explain how to attack a trust, discuss available remedies, and outline critical evidentiary issues in establishing a party’s interest in the trust as a marital asset.

For more information and to register, please visit the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.straffordpub.com/products/trusts-and-divorce-discovering-hidden-trusts-reaching-trust-assets-protecting-beneficiarys-interest-2025-01-14">webinar webpage</a>.

1:00–2:30 p.m. EST / 10:00–11:30 a.m. PST

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Sean R. Weissbart

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