Planning for the end

This is it, the last, last, LAST semester.

Of course, this one has to be the ass-kicker. I haven't studied this much since first year. I'm actually back to briefing cases (creating little summaries of of judicial opinions). It's very interesting to take Wills and Trusts at the same time as Estate and Gift Tax. Those are the fancy names for opposite sides of the coin named When Property Owners Die. On Tuesdays I learn how to make a will that will stick. On Thursdays, I learn how to put the least taxable items in the will. The overlap makes everything so deliciously nuanced.

Sadly my Real Estate class has me lost already. I can see how doing badly in property during first year had unseen repercussions. I'm certainly learning conditional grants and future interests NOW.

I don't really want to be an estate planner. But I don't know how to break into the areas I'm interested in. So I guess it's estate planning, you know, planning for the end. It's a good demographic, everybody has to die sometime, and you can't take it with you.