DEAL FOR A WEEK; New Forms & Books

In this 33-minute August 15, 2025, program, Steven G. Siegel explains selected estate, trust, and tax planning strategies post-2025 OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), also known as H.R. 1. This program explains strategies that remain useful under OBBBA, with a focus on income tax basis adjustments and the use of non-grantor trusts to expand use of the 2025 Act tax changes (SALT, 1202, 199A, etc.).

In this 1-hour August 12, 2025 program, Steven G. Siegel explains selected income tax provisions of the 2025 OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), also known as H.R. 1, and provides important planning suggestions for those provisions.

FREE ~ 5 MINUTES: To hear - for free - approximately five minutes of this audio presentation by Mr. Siegel, please click here: 5 Minutes FREE.

Scroll down to read the list of included forms.

SAVE and establish or expand your library with Essential Estate Planning Forms (59 Forms, 648 Pages). 

Reference these forms to save drafting time and compare how Steve Siegel drafts his documents.  See the detailed description for the list of included forms.  Each form is fully editable and yours for immediate and unlimited use upon purchase.

Scroll down to read the list of included forms.

Sophisticated Estate Planning Forms (32 Forms, 674 Pages) is a cost-effective opportunity to establish or expand your library. 

Reference these forms to save drafting time and compare how Steve Siegel drafts his documents.  Each form is fully editable and yours for immediate and unlimited use upon purchase.

The intent of the SLAT is to have a spouse create a significant trust (funding it with as much (or all) of the donor’s lifetime transfer tax exemption as the donor is willing to use) for his or her spouse without qualifying the trust for the gift tax marital deduction. This makes the gift “taxable”, but if capped at or below the lifetime transfer tax exemption, no transfer tax will be due. The donee spouse will be entitled to income and principal from the trust, but the trust property will not be included in the estate of the donee spouse. When the donee spouse dies, the children of the spouses become the trust beneficiaries, either with outright distributions, or with the trust property being held in further trust. The donor spouse has now used his or her transfer tax exclusion before it may be lost in future legislation, and has removed significant property from transfer taxation over two deaths. Note that this trust is designed as a grantor trust (Article 18th), so that the donor-grantor is taxed on the trust income, but the grantor will not have an estate inclusion since the grantor powers are intentionally not extensive. If the grantor trust characterization is not desired, Article 18th can be removed.

SLATs have become the hottest topic in estate planning for many clients, not just the very wealthy.

IMPORTANT:  This 1-Hour Audio is available for CLE credit on our sister sites.  To take this course for online study go to www.NLFonline.com.  To take this course on Audio CD, Flash Drive or by Email Delivery go to www.NLFcle.com.  Only purchase the audio from this website, www.NLFforms.com, if you do not want CLE credit for this program. 

Mr. Siegel's fully-editable SLAT form is available here:  Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT) (30 Pages).  It is not included with the one-hour audio program.