International Estate Planning and Taxation 101

The world is getting smaller and smaller.  As estate planners, we need to be aware of cross-border issues when it comes to estate planning and taxation.  In this episode, our guest Chris Nason will be discussing a basic and practical overview of international estate planning and tax planning issues.   

About Our Guest:

Chris Nason is a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery based in their San Francisco office. Chris focuses his practice on private client matters.  He is the managing editor of International Estate Planning, a multi-volume guide to US estate and income taxation of foreign nationals published annually by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender Elite. Chris teaches classes on Trusts and Estate Planning at Stanford Law School.

While in law school, Chris served as an editor for the Yale Journal of International Law and was a fellow at the China Law Center and was also a co-president of the Law and Africa Society. Prior to law school, he attended Peking University as a CSC Scholar, where he studied Chinese language and law. Chris can be reached at: Cnason@mwe.com

About Our Host:
Host Anna Soliman is Trust Counsel and Chief Fiduciary Officer for Fiduciary Trust International of California out of the Los Angeles Office. Prior to joining Fiduciary Trust International, Anna was an estate tax attorney for the Internal Revenue Service and also worked in private practice, specializing in estate planning and trust administration for ultrahigh net worth individuals.  She is also a TEXCOM member and is a Vice-Chair of the Fiduciary Income Tax Section of the American Bar Association. 

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