Faculty & Staff
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Lee-ford
Tritt Associate Professor Director, Center for Estate and Elder Law Planning Director, Estates & Trusts Practice Certificate Program Associate Director, Center on Children and Families Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: Tritt@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0952 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- Estates & Trusts — LAW 6430 (Credits: 3)
Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5400). Registration priority given to second-year students. Topics covered include intestate succession, gifts, execution of wills, creation of trusts, charitable trusts, ademption and lapse, powers and appointment. - Fiduciary Administration I — LAW 6440 (Credits: 3)
Prerequisite: Estates and Trusts (LAW 6430). Problems and the administration of decedents’ estates and of noncommercial trusts, probate procedure, powers of the fiduciary, compensation of fiduciaries and their attorneys. - Estate Planning — LAW 6450 (Credits: 2 or 3)
Prerequisites: Estates and Trusts (LAW 6430) and pre- or co-requisite Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers (LAW 6620). Recommended: Fiduciary Administration (LAW 6440). Using problems as the primary means of instruction, will explore theories and skills involved in estate planning process. Specific topics include: estate planning engagement; information gathering; estate analysis; identification of client objectives; development of remedial and conventional estate plans; and selection of fiduciaries. Students will complete an exercise in document preparation in a transactional context. - Advanced Topics in Estates & Trusts