section update
Estate Planning & Probate Section
By Robert E. Turner, Chair
Turner Law, P.C.
[email protected]
T
he Atlanta Bar’s Estate Planning and Probate Section
fiscal year will be over on May 31, 2014. This year has
been a tremendous year for our Section. We have had
nationally-known, as well as Georgia-renowned speakers,
at our Section’s events, including Natalie Choate, Professor
Jeffery Pennell, Professor Mary Radford, and Professor Sam
Donaldson. The topics at our monthly breakfast are always
relevant and important to our practice. Our Section posts
most, if not all, of our monthly morning CLE written materials
on our Section’s website with the Atlanta Bar. Topics at our
morning breakfast have ranged from estate planning for
same-sex and non-married couples to a discussion with the
Chief Judge of the new Georgia Tax tribunal. Please check
out our Section’s website for this valuable CLE material.
Our Section has had some great social events with other
Sections of the Atlanta Bar and with a number of professional
organizations in the Atlanta community. We gathered at Aja
with the Georgia Society of CPAs in November 2013. We then
gathered with the Georgia Financial Planners, the Atlanta Bar
Elder Law Section, and the Atlanta Bar Tax Law Section in
March 2014.
Our Section was active in the creation of the Dekalb County
Probate Court and the Fulton County Probate Court Probate
Information Centers (PIC) that assist lower income individuals
with the probate of estates and other related matters in the
Atlanta Metro Area. The members of our Section regularly
provide volunteer lawyers to staff the Fulton County and
DeKalb County Probate Information Center. The DeKalb
Probate Court Judge Jeryl Rosh frequently attends our
monthly breakfast meetings, where she also encourages our
Section members to volunteer for the DeKalb PIC. Fulton
County Probate Court Judge Pinky Toomer attended our
meeting on May 14 to promote the Fulton County PIC and
collected signatures from volunteers to work in the PIC.
Business School. She specializes in advising large multibusiness family enterprises on strategy and governance. The
presentation from Dr. Pendergast was very informative and
interesting. We thank everyone who attended.
On May 1, Georgia State College of Law Professor