Are you prepared for every contingency impatient beneficiaries and absent-minded PRs can throw your way? Do you know how to handle an estate when the creditors are banging on the decedent's door? We've compiled this little shop of probate horrors for you to learn from others' mistakes before you stumble into them. Whether you're new to the area of probate law or have practiced it for years, you will find this “walkthrough of errors” useful. Don't get caught unprepared – order today!

1. Personal Representative Challenges
2. Possible Liability Problems
3. Closing Estates
4. Conservatorships and Guardianships
5. Determining Rightful Heirs or Beneficiaries
6. Special Issues and Problems

1. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE CHALLENGES
   9:00 - 10:00, Jeffrey L. Stoehr
   1. Having a PR Appointed When There's No Will
   2. Multiple or Co-PRs
   3. Out of State PR
   4. Controlling the Wayward PR
   5. Disability of a PR or Other Fiduciary
   6. Dealing With Theft or Mismanagement
   7. Disputes Between Beneficiaries and PRs
2. POSSIBLE LIABILITY PROBLEMS
   10:15 - 11:15, Jeffrey L. Stoehr
   1. Statutes of Limitations
   2. Creditors' Claims; Negotiating With Creditors
   3. Selling Property to Pay Claims
   4. Incarcerated Heirs or Beneficiaries
   5. Uncooperative Beneficiaries
   6. Tax Claims and Liens
   7. The Insolvent Estate
3. CLOSING ESTATES
   11:15 - 12:15, Jeffrey L. Stoehr
   1. Formal Closing
   2. Informal Closing by Statement of Personal Representative
   3. Liability of Distributees
   4. Reopening Estates – When, How and Why?
4. CONSERVATORSHIPS AND GUARDIANSHIPS
   1:15 - 2:15, Jeffrey T. Palzer
   1. Basic Guidelines to Knowing How and When to Use These Tools
   2. Procedures and Forms
   3. Guardianship/Conservatorship for Minors
   4. Guardianship/Conservatorship for Disabled Adults
   5. Estate Planning With a Conservatee (i.e. Stipulated Judgments )
5. DETERMINING RIGHTFUL HEIRS OR BENEFICIARIES
   2:30 - 3:30, Jeffrey T. Palzer
   1. How to Handle Family Controversies
   2. Common Law Marriage Issues
   3. Non-Marital Children
   4. Equitable Adoption Claims
   5. Finding Missing Heirs
   6. Determining Heirs in Tardy Probate
6. SPECIAL ISSUES AND PROBLEMS
   3:30 - 4:30, Jeffrey T. Palzer
   1. Ancillary Probate
   2. Multiple Estates; The Estate Within an Estate
   3. Heirs Property
   4. Differences Between Jurisdictions
   5. Unclaimed Property and Escheat Law
   6. Lapsed or Void Gifts
   7. Death Before the Divorce is Finalized
   8. Avoiding Foreclosure of a Probate Asset
   9. Clearing Up Title Problems
   10. Dealing With a Foreign-Born Decedent, Foreign Beneficiaries or Property in Other Countries

JEFFREY T. PALZER is an attorney with the Omaha law firm of Kellogg & Palzer, P.C., where he practices in the areas of adoption law, estate planning, probate, trust administration, wills, guardianship, conservatorship, small business law, corporate law, partnership law, contracts, personal injury, discrimination and employment law. He has worked in the areas of estate planning since 1994 with a variety of clients. Mr. Palzer has presented at numerous seminars on estate planning, including the Nebraska Association of Financial Planners, on special needs trusts, and recently for National Business Institute on matters related to elder law. He currently serves on the Estate Planning Committee for the Omaha Archdiocese Committee on Development. Mr. Palzer earned his B.A. degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Creighton University. He is a member of the Nebraska State Bar Association.

JEFFREY L. STOEHR is a sole practitioner in Omaha, Nebraska, where he has been practicing law since 1973. He practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, tax planning, corporate law and medical malpractice. Mr. Stoehr has spoken to insurance companies several times on wills and trusts issues, as well as professional groups on estate planning and probate law. He is a member of the Omaha, Nebraska State and American (member, sections on: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) bar associations. Mr. Stoehr earned his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

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