Estate Planning Basics: What It Involves and How To Talk About It

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Community Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, and Cooperative Extension Agents: Estate planning is your go-to protection against blighted homes, land loss, and generational poverty in the communities you serve. With proper estate planning, your constituents can prevent the creation of heirs property, an unstable form of landownership that limits a family’s ability to make home improvements, manage farm and timber land, and build generational wealth typically leveraged through USDA and bank financing, nonprofit home-repair programs, disaster relief, and business development.

Enhance your financial literacy offerings, ensure your philanthropic investments last, and serve your community better by understanding estate planning. During this webinar, our speakers will help Community Leaders, Nonprofit Staff, and Cooperative Extension Agents understand estate planning basics:

What estate planning includes;

  1. How to talk about estate planning with communities and clients

  2. What happens when you die with a will versus without a will

  3. How estate planning can prevent heirs property

  4. What decisions need to be made before meeting with an attorney and

  5. How estate planning impacts Community, Nonprofit, and Cooperative Extension organizations’ goals.

Speakers: Gentry E. Mander, J.D. & Skipper StipeMaas, Georgia Heirs Property Law Center

Building Generational Wealth: The Probate Process and Deceased Relatives’ Debts

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Dealing with the death of spouse or other family member is difficult. While they are still grieving, surviving family members can be targeted by debt collectors and led to believe that they are responsible for paying their loved ones’ debts. Family members are also frequently unaware that the probate process provides financial protections for surviving spouses and minor children. This webcast will provide an overview of the following:

• What happens when a family member dies with and without a last will and testament;
• What it means to probate an estate and how the probate process works;
• The extent to which surviving family members are liable for a deceased relative’s debts; and
• How surviving spouses and minor children can obtain additional protections through year’s support petitions.

The Building Generational Wealth webcast series is offered by the Generational Poverty Law Project, a partnership between Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and Georgia Heirs Property Law Center and funded by The Junior League of Atlanta.

Speaker: Joann E. Johnston, Legal Programs Director and Gentry E. Mander, Equal Justice Works Georgia Housing Corps Fellow

Building Generational Wealth: Understanding Clear Title and Estate Planning

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This is a discussion of the Understanding Clear Title and Estate Planning with Skipper G. StipeMaas and Joann E. Johnston of Georgia Heirs Property Law Center. Access the PowerPoint presentation at https://www.pbpatl.org/for-nonprofits/workshops-and-webcasts/ and visit our website at https://www.pbpatl.org/ To view the entire video, please remember to drag the progress marker to the beginning.