Texas CLE - Family Law Courses
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Partnering on Nursing Home Negligence Cases: A Guide for Estate and Elder Law Lawyers
Estate planning and elder law attorneys may unexpectedly become the first point of contact when a client’s loved one suffers nursing home neglect or abuse. While you may not litigate personal injury cases, you play a critical role in identifying viable claims, guiding families, and partnering with specialized nursing home injury lawyers. This CLE presentation offers a practical roadmap with four key sections: Vetting Nursing Home Cases – How to tell a legal case from a non-legal compl... More Info
$1002General Credits -
Estate Planning for the Cognitively Impaired
This CLE course explores the nuances of estate planning with clients who may be experiencing cognitive decline, focusing on the legal standards for capacity, the ethical duties of attorneys, and best practices to prevent and defend against undue influence claims. Attorneys will learn how to assess capacity ethically, document client intent thoroughly, and structure estate plans that withstand future legal challenges. The course also reviews how courts evaluate undue influence, and provi... More Info
$501General Credit -
Pooled Special Needs Trusts: An Important Tool to Protect Clients & Preserve Public Benefits
If your client has a disability, or has a loved one with a disability, this impacts representation in a variety of areas, including estate planning, family law, and personal injury law. The complexity of planning for the future and navigating public benefits creates unique challenges. Attorneys must act carefully to safeguard the person’s eligibility for public benefits and to supplement those benefits to improve their quality of life. A pooled special needs trust (PSNT) is a... More Info
$501General Credit -
Navigating Stormy Parenting Plans: Process Over Chaos
As lawyers, it's easy to become myopic—caught up in the chaos, mechanics, and technicalities of dispute resolution. Divorce, at its core, revolves around two key elements: financial matters and the parenting plan. Financials are relatively straightforward; we gather income, assets, liabilities, and debts, input the numbers into a third-party software program, and accept the results. The parenting plan, however, is far more complex—more art than science. While a parenting plan may offici... More Info
$501General Credit -
Employment Accommodations for Women with Children in the Workplace
This CLE program will examine the principal laws protecting parents who are pregnant or with children in the workplace. There are numerous protections regarding various aspects of pregnancy and child birth. The laws covering a parents need to care for themselves and others will be discussed. And protections against discrimination based on gender, particularly in terms of pay, will be considered. The course will also cover some basic employment law principals for litigating t... More Info
$501General Credit -
Essential Estate Documents: Don't Delay Until It's Too Late
This CLE program addresses a common concern: people commonly put off or do not seriously consider necessary documents for universal eventuality: death, incapacity, or providing for others who will have to step in. This one-hour course will cover basic documents and suggested text, how and when they come into play, and often overlooked issues that should be addressed. Three basic documents will be reviewed: Will, Power of Attorney, and Advance Directive. More Info
$501General Credit