Welcome to the LREP Home Page
GENERAL PURPOSE & HISTORY OF
LREP: Hello, I'm Jason E. Havens, a
Destin, Florida attorney and a graduate of the
University of Miami's Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Estate
Planning program. In 1997, while a law student at the
University
of Tennessee College of Law (UT -- my beloved alma
mater), I designed this personal site with three goals in
mind: (1) to assist legal researchers in finding quality
legal materials on the Internet; (2) to provide information
to law students throughout the world; and (3) to allow
others to contact me via the Internet. Because of my focus
on estate planning at UT, due in part to the academic
guidance of UT & Waller, Lansden Distinguished
Professor Amy Hess, I
also devoted a page of this site to estate planning and
taxation legal research and information, now known as the
Legal Research for Estate Planners website (LREP).
USE OF LREP: All
usage of LREP is subject to its mandatory
Terms Use & Disclaimer,
which are available via any page of this site via the
navigational bar at the left side or the bottom of any page.
I am very thankful and honored
that LREP has evolved to a national resource or "gateway" on
estate planning (with reviews provided by fellow
practitioners) from its single-page beginning. To guide LREP
users, please review the
Helpful Tips
page, which is also available via the navigational bar at
the left side or the bottom of any page. The general
comments on the
Helpful Tips page should optimize the use of and
research in connection with LREP. Please use the
LREP search tool below
(
10/11/2003), which is now powered by Google™,
to find specific information that was formerly offered on a
single page.
THE FUTURE OF LREP: As
of June 2005 (
6/25/2005), LREP was updated with the most significant
changes since its conversion to a multi-page website. I have
limited the links to only those that are most useful to
practitioners and the public. I have also included
numerous citations to other resources on particular estate
planning topics, most of which are available in print and
via the Internet (although most require subscriptions).
I hope to maintain LREP as
long as I am capable to ensure that it continues as a free
resource on estate planning. I have posted materials and
links that will hopefully prove useful to others. I greatly
appreciate all of the comments that I have received over the
years from LREP users. Please continue to help me perpetuate
the purpose of LREP, visit as much as desired, and tell
others about this site.
LREP Search Tool
Search Tools on the Internet
Researchers can use various search engines to find
other relevant Internet sites. One of the most useful search engines
is
Google™.
Lawcrawler, which is available via
FindLaw®,
is a specific search engine that is designed to find Internet sites
with a legal theme. Other search engines include
Yahoo!®,
AltaVista™,
HotBot,
Lycos,
Excite®,
LookSmart®,
and
WebCrawler®.
Search engines use different criteria to evaluate the content of
sites that they search. One site,
SearchEngines.com, lists various search engines and also
provides information on how sites are ranked by search engines.
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