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CYBER ESTATE PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION

Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateNovember 2, 2016
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaOther
Course LevelBasic
Series: Estate Planning
Course Description

This presentation focuses on the developing area of "digital assets," electronic records ranging from e-mail accounts to banking, investment, and shopping accounts, domain names, social networking sites, and online games. Prof. Beyer will offer guidance on the utility of comprehensive planning for digital assets and will discuss issues that affect this set of assets, offer estate planning options, analyze existing laws, and explore current and future trends in this area.

Learning Objectives

  • Identifying digital assets so attendees may appreciate the vastness of a client's digital estate.

  • Demonstrating the reasons why it is of vital importance to plan for digital assets.

  • Explaining how user agreements and federal law place hurdles in the way of proper planning for digital assets.

  • Enumerating the techniques available to plan for a client's digital assets. Showing the obstacles to using these planning techniques.

  • Discussing how fiduciaries may gain access to digital assets under current state law, the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, and the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act.

  • Reviewing areas where future reform is likely.​

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Gerry Beyer

Texas Tech University School of Law
Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law
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(806) 834-4270

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Gerry W. Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2005 as the first holder of the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professorship. Previously, Prof. Beyer taught at St. Mary’s University and has served as a visiting professor at several other law schools including Boston College, The Ohio State University, Southern Methodist University, the University of New Mexico, Santa Clara University, and La Trobe University (Australia). He is the recipient of dozens of outstanding and distinguished faculty awards including the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the most prestigious university-wide teaching award at Texas Tech. Prof. Beyer was also the recipient of the 2012-2013 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Texas Tech School of Law. As a state and nationally recognized expert in estate planning, Prof. Beyer is a highly sought after lecturer. He presents dozens of continuing legal education presentations each year for many state and local bar associations, universities, and civic groups. Prof. Beyer is the editor of the most popular estate planning blawg in the nation which for the past four years has been named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100. He has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles focusing on various aspects of estate planning, including a two volume treatise on Texas wills law, an estate planning casebook, and the Wills, Trusts, and Estates volume of the Examples & Explanations series. He has three times won awards from the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property magazine for his writing and is one of the most often downloaded law authors on the Social Science Research Network. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the REPTL Reporter, the official journal of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Prof. Beyer serves as a mentor to many students and various law school organizations as well participating regularly in pro bono activities. He is the advisor for the Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal and its annual seminar. Professor Beyer received his J.D. from the Ohio State University and his LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Order of the Coif, an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a member of the American Law Institute.

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