LREP > II. NATIONAL
EP SITES
As mentioned on my
Home Page, I am very thankful and honored that Legal
Research for Estate Planners (LREP) has evolved to a
national resource on estate planning (with reviews provided
by many fellow practitioners) from its single page
beginning. To allow efficient research, LREP is divided into
six (6) systematic categories, descending from more general
estate planning (EP) research information to more specific,
practical information on estate planning. This LREP category
provides links to national EP organizations and to law and
business schools that feature EP pages. I hope that you find
this category of sites helpful.
A. National EP
Orgs.; B. Law & Business
Schools
A.
National EP Organizations
1. Primary Organizations
American
Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trusts Section
(ABA RPPT) (excellent, with EP publications and free list
serve (ABA-PTL) on estate planning (both under EP
LITERATURE), links, and more) or
ABA Tax
Section
American
College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC) (prestigious,
with a very good list of links)
National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL)
("organization is comprised of more than 300 lawyers, judges
and law professors ... to draft proposals for uniform and
model laws on subjects where uniformity is desirable and
practicable, and work toward their enactment in
legislatures"; free research tools on various uniform laws,
similar to U. of Pennsylvania Law Library (below) but more
comprehensive, including details on which states have
enacted specific uniform laws and what version has been
adopted)
(5/31/2002) ( 10/11/2003)2. Other Organizations
National Association of Tax Practitioners
National Association of Financial and Estate
Planning (graphical articles on
estate planning)3. Marketing
Organizations
National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys
("Estate Planning & You," a free question-and-answer
database, and a free searchable attorney listing)
American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys
(designer of frequently-encountered Web site of numerous
members, accessible under their general public area, which
includes "Estate Planning News," a newsletter, "Special
Report: Where There's a Will, There's Probate," "The Trouble
with Joint Tenancy," FAQs, "Top 10 Planning Techniques," and
an "IQ Quiz")
B. Law & Business
Schools (alphabetical) (Back to
Top of NATIONAL
EP SITES)
1. Law Schools
a. Law Schools with Tax or EP Pages/Sites
Estate Planning -
Legal Information Institute (LII) (Cornell U. Law) (good
general explanations, as well as access to statutes and
cases)
Trusts and Estates Research
Resources -
Georgetown U. Law Library ( 10/11/2003)
Table of Contents –
WWW Virual Law Library (Indiana U. Law) (topical listing for
"Taxation" sites; comprehensive and updated frequently)
Trusts and Estates
- Professor Sheldon F. Kurtz (U. of Iowa Law) (excellent
resources: article on Iowa's rule against perpetuities
(RAP), model wills, and presentations based on a popular
estates & trusts casebook)
Property, Trusts and Estates Law Links
- Mercer U. Law Library
Estates and Trusts
- U. of Montana Law (9/9/2000)
Tax
Law Lounge - Ohio
Northern (Pettit) U. Law (tax developments, resources, and
links) ( 10/11/2003)
Tax Law Links -
Oklahoma U. Law Center
U. of Pennsylvania Law Library
(Penn uniform laws research tool, including links to
Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interst Act (July 1999
draft for approval),
Uniform Principal and Income Act (final act), and
Uniform Trust Act (July 1999 second reading draft))
(specific act links: 8/26/2000) (see also II.A.1. above (NCCUSL))
Property/Wills and Trusts
- U. of Pittsburg Law JURIST (Law Professors' Network by
Professor Bernard J. Hibbits) (articles and links)
Professor Gerry Beyer (St. Mary's U. Law) (see also IV.
SPECIFIC EP TOPICS > E. Basic & Advanced EP and V. EP
LITERATURE)
(9/2/2001)
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog - Professor Gerry
Beyer ("A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network")
 (5/22/2005)
Villanova U. Law Tax Master - Professor James Maule
(very good tax resource, including the Villanova Tax Law
Compendium (graduate law student articles))
Probate, Trusts, Estates & Wills
- Washburn U. Law WEB
b. Other Helpful Law School Sites
The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook
- U. of Cincinnatti Law (Center for Corporate Law)
(9/2/2000)
U. of Texas Law Library
(good general legal research tool)
2. Business Schools
Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI)
- U. of Missouri-Columbia ("an interdisciplinary research
institute dedicated to the study of the organization and
structure of economic enterprise and of the effects of
legal, political, social, and economic institutions on the
structure and performance of economic organizations"; one of
the most impressive resources on business and contract law
on the Internet; includes free registered access to more
than 15,000 documents in plain text (Courier) format --
primarily drawn from the Securities and Exchange
Commission's EDGAR database -- via database known as CORI
Knowledgebase (K-Base); CORI K-Base is searchable or can be
browsed by subject, such as "By-Laws, Incorporation, Rights
Agreements, Organizational Governance," "Employment
Agreements," "Financial Contracts," "Joint Ventures and
Alliances," "Leases and Licenses," and "Mergers and
Acquisitions"; one of
"ABA TECHSHOW®
60 Sites in 60 Minutes 2004," as was LREP) (5/8/2004) (duplicate listing
under VI. EP PRACTICE TOOLS, A. Forms, 2. Legal EP and Tax
Forms)
Administration Tax Resources
- U. of Connecticut Business School
Office of Tax Policy Research
- U. of Michigan Business School (including "Publications")
American Tax Association
(ATA) - U. of Northern Illinois
American Accounting Association
(AAA) - Rutgers U. (various publications)
"Tax-Related Primary Sources on the Internet"
- Dr. Richard J. Joseph (U. of Texas Business School)
(excellent links to tax-related primary sources)
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