The ACTEC Board of Regents convened during the College’s Fall Meeting in Philadelphia, PA to consider nominations for a new class of Fellows. The College is pleased to announce that 42 individuals were elected. This select group spans the US and includes four international Fellows representing Toronto, Montreal, London and Tel Aviv.
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The ACTEC Foundation is pleased to announce the fifth class of Dennis I. Belcher ACTEC Young Leaders.
The ACTEC Foundation today announced the 2019 winners of the Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition. Five law students were selected among twelve entries received and reviewed by a panel of judges appointed by the Legal Education Committee of the College.
The United States Supreme Court today ruled in a unanimous opinion against North Carolina in a trust tax case. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) filed an influential amicus brief in March, The North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberly Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust. The Supreme Court decision determined that a trust beneficiary’s residence in a state does not establish a necessary connection for the state to tax the trust.
The Florida Fellows Institute of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) recently recognized 29 graduates of the program’s fourth class.
The Board of Regents of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) met at the 2019 Annual Meeting in La Quinta, CA to review nominations for a new class of Fellows. We are proud to announce that 40 individuals have been peer-elected to the College. This group of new Fellows spans the US, including three Fiduciary Counsel Fellows, as well as five International Fellows representing Belgium, Canada, China, and Italy.
ACTEC announces John A. (“Jack”) Terrill, II is to serve as the 2019-2020 President. The Board of Regents of the College inaugurated the 2019-2020 officers during its Annual Meeting in La Quinta, California. Terrill, a partner at Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, P.C. in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania succeeded ACTEC Fellow Charles D. “Skip” Fox, IV.
An amicus brief in The North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust was filed on March 1, 2019, with the Supreme Court by ACTEC. This is an important case dealing with the ability of a state to tax the income of an irrevocable nongrantor trust.
The Board of Regents of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) met October 28 at the 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington, DC to review nominations for a new class of Fellows. We are proud to announce that 38 individuals have been peer-elected to the College. This group of new Fellows spans the US, including one academic Fellow and four Fiduciary Counsel, and also an International Fellow representing France.
ACTEC and its Fellows researched and offered opinion to Supreme Court in Sveen v. Melin. The decision was 8-1 in favor of the position taken by ACTEC as amicus curiae with only Justice Gorsuch dissenting. ACTEC supported the position that revocation upon divorce statutes, applied retroactively to life insurance beneficiary designations, do not violate the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution.