What You Need To Know As a Guardian Ad Litem - Online Video Replay

1:00 - 4:50 p.m.
(Eastern Time)

ONLINE INSTANT VIDEO REPLAY SERIES

4.0 MCLE Credits (2.0 professional practice; 1.5 skills; 0.5 ethics)

ATTENTION: Online video replays are approved for MCLE credit for all attorneys EXCEPT newly admitted (less than 24 months).
Please note that this is a replay of a live program which was previously recorded and therefore does not allow for questions to be submitted to the faculty.

Program Description

The Trusts and Estates Law Section and Committee on Continuing Legal Education are pleased to present this half-day program that will qualify you for an appointment as a guardian ad litem in Surrogate’s Court or other court.

The four and a half hours of MCLE credit you will earn from this program include coverage of: 1) the substantive rules and law of Part 36 of the Rules of the Chief Judge (22 NYCRR Part 36) governing court appointment of fiduciaries, 2) ethics, and 3) the procedural aspects of serving as a guardian ad litem as well as the substantive role of a guardian ad litem in various proceedings.   

The program faculty will include experienced trusts and estates practitioners and Surrogate’s Court personnel.

Topics

I.  PART 36 RULES    

II.  ROLE OF A GUARDIAN AD LITEM

III.  SOME PROCEEDINGS IN WHICH A GUARDIAN AD LITEM MAY BE APPOINTED (There will be a brief coffee break midway through this session)
      A. Probate Proceedings
      B. Accounting Proceedings
            1. In General
            2. PA Accountings and Kinship Hearings
            3. Withdrawal Proceedings
      C. Miscellaneous Proceedings (Compromise and Accountings)
      D. Article 17-A Guardianships
      E. Preliminary Letters Administration, c.t.a.
      F. Intestate Proceedings

IV. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Program Faculty

Chair and Moderator

Jessica R. Amelar, Esq.
Principal Court Attorney
New York  County Surrogate’s Court
New York City

Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Anne C. Bederka,  Esq.
Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP
New York City

Hon. Kristin Booth Glen
New York County Surrogate
New York City

Michele Lippa Gartner, Esq.
Counsel, Office of Court Administration
New York City

Hon. Peter J. Kelly
Queens County Surrogate
Jamaica

Marilyn G. Ordover, Esq.
Cullen and Dykman  LLP
Brooklyn

Michael P. Ryan, Esq.
Cullen and Dykman LLP
Brooklyn

Peter  S. Schram, Esq.
Schram & Graber, P.C.
New York City

Olga Statz, Esq.
Law  Secretary to Hon. Margarita López Torres
Kings County Surrogate's Court
Brooklyn


Statewide Program Planning Chair

Michael P. Ryan, Esq.
Cullen and Dykman LLP
Brooklyn

 MCLE CREDITS

4.0 Total Credits
2.0 credit hours of professional practice and/or practice management; 1.5 credit hours of skills; 0.5 credit hour in ethics.

The last day to pre-register online was August 21, 2012.

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Seminar
Registration	$95.00

Seminar
Registration	$195.00

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