Webinar DescriptionDivorce can up-end a client’s life not just personally but also financially. This seminar will focus on strategic wealth and estate planning before, during, and after divorce to achieve a new “happily ever after.” Some of the topics we will discuss include: (1) planning for tax issues that arise during and after divorce, (2) the division of assets including the treatment of trusts during a divorce, and (3) when and how a client may want to change certain estate planning documents, including irrevocable trusts that may have been created during marriage. Schedule
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm - Welcome & Opening Remarks
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm - Presentation and Q&A (Virtual) Panelists
Jennifer A. Bingham 
Jennifer A. Bingham is a partner in the Wellesley firm of Saponaro Bingham LLP where she concentrates her practice in all aspects divorce, including complex property division, business valuation, alimony, child support, child custody and antenuptial agreements. Rooted in the Wellesley area since 2004 she has been named “Best Lawyers in America” and repeatedly has been selected by her peers as one of the Top Massachusetts Super Lawyers by Boston Magazine and one of the Top Women Massachusetts Super Lawyers. Ms. Bingham is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a nationally recognized organization committed to the excellence in the practice of family law She has provided her expertise through lecture and authoring materials in the area of family law for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association, Boston College School of Law and Suffolk University Law School. In addition to her practice, she has provided leadership in a wide variety of legal organizations including the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Inn of Court, the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Family Law Advisory Board and the Boston Bar Association.Ms. Bingham is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and New York Bar, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and regularly appears before the Probate and Family Courts of Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth and Worcester Counties. Before entering private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Justices of the Probate and Family Court.
Gabrielle Clemens, JD, LLM (Taxation), CDFA®, AEP® 
Gabrielle Clemens is a Managing Director - Private Wealth Management with RBC Wealth Management, and joined the financial services industry after working several years as both a divorce and trust and estate planning attorney with an emphasis on tax. A graduate of Boston University’s School of Law, she has also earned a graduate law degree in taxation. Although she has a broad-based clientele, Gabrielle primarily works with high-net worth and divorced or divorcing individuals and couples. Gabrielle offers divorce financial planning services, seminars, and workshops throughout New England, is a frequent guest on local and national media outlets and does many public speaking engagements. Gabrielle was named a 2021 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisor, Forbes Top Woman Wealth Advisor, Top Woman of Law by Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, Top Wealth Advisor by Working Mother Magazine, and a Dynamic Woman of Boston 2020 and 2021 by Boston Common Magazine.
Megan C. Knox 
Megan C. Knox, is a partner at McDonald & Kanyuk, PLLC in Wellesley, MA and Concord, NH. She concentrates her practice in the area of trusts and estates law for high-net-worth individuals. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Megan has published articles and lectured on many estate planning topics, including trusts and divorce. She has also served as a trust expert in divorce litigation. She earned her B.S. in economics and dance, magna cum laude, from Skidmore College, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law. Megan also earned her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University College of Law, where she received the Ernest M. Haddad Award, which is presented to the Graduate Tax Program student who best exhibits overall ability, taking into consideration academic achievement, character and potential to serve the public interest.
  
Registration Fees:
Members - $10
Non-Members - $30
Approved (11/11/2021): BEPC is a CE Sponsor through the CFP Board. Happily Ever After: Estate & Wealth Planning Before, During, and After Divorce program on 12/9/2021 is approved for 2.00 continue education (CE) hours. BEPC's educational events may meet the requirements of Rule 15D under the Massachusetts Establishment and Administration of Mandatory Professional Education for the Practice of Public Accountancy.
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