Dynasty trusts can be just the estate planning device your client needs, but take care not to run afoul of rule against perpetuities and the Internal Revenue Code.
Illinois Bar Journal | March 1999 Table of Contents
March 1999 • Volume 87 • Number 3
Practice News
Articles
138
Do your clients know they can use trusts to encourage good behavior by trust beneficiaries? This questionnaire can help you help them do value-based estate planning.
146
The author argues that there is a better way for courts to limit legislators' power to combine diverse subjects into a single bill and offers an alternative.
152
A review of important changes wrought by this sweeping new law.
160
A primer on wrongful discharge, with an emphasis on employee handbooks and retaliatory discharge.
Columns
122
Workers' comp; allow penalties for meritless claims
123
For you estate planners, we offer an article by Messrs. Margolin and Weinstein on the interplay between dynasty trusts and that law-student's nightmare, the rule against perpetuities.
124
One of the fundamental tasks of a lawyer is to find the law and communicate that authority to others.
165
Here's how to size up a prospective (or an opponent's) psychologist-expert.
167
You loved 'em as a kid and as a law student — now that you're a lawyer, don't overlook encyclopedias as you begin your legal research.
169
Attorneys are not above the laws of good marketing; ignore them at your peril.
171
Attorneys are not above the laws of good marketing; ignore them at your peril.