Gerry Beyer and Brooke Dacus have made available for download their article, “Puff, the Magic Dragon and the Estate Planner,” published in the Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law eJournal, Vol. 12, No.5, Feb. 2016.
The Abstract reads as follows:
With the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana in almost half of the states, practitioners need to be aware of interface between marijuana and estate planning. This article provides a discussion of the major issues that arise. After bringing readers up-to-date with the history of legalized marijuana, the article focuses on how marijuana use may impact a user’s capacity to execute a will and other estate planning documents. The article then examines other estate planning concerns such as will and trust provisions conditioning benefits on the non-use of “illegal drugs” and the impact of marijuana use on life insurance policies. The article wraps up with a discussion of how an estate planner may deal with marijuana-based assets when planning an estate and how to value those assets after the owner has died.
Source: Puff, the Magic Dragon and the Estate Planner by Gerry W. Beyer, Brooke Dacus :: SSRN
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