Tax Series Session 2: Estate Tax Exemption and "A/B" Planning
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Vanessa L. Kanaga, Esq., and Elizabeth Q. Boehmcke, Esq.
October 3, 2024
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This session will focus on the federal estate tax exemption, how it can be best utilized via a “bypass trust,” and how it might be wasted. The presenters will also cover “portability” of the estate tax exemption.
- Marital Deduction Gifts – form and requirements
- Use (and waste) of the estate tax exemption
- Portability of the estate tax exemption
- Bypass Trusts – ensuring use of the exemption
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Vanessa L. Kanaga, Esq.
Vanessa Kanaga currently serves as InterActive Legal’s Special Advisor on Estate Planning and Legal Strategy. She is the former CEO of InterActive Legal. Vanessa received her J.D. from Cornell Law School and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wichita State University, as well as an Advanced Professional Certificate from New York University School of Law. She is licensed in New York, Kansas, and Arizona, and currently lives in Arizona.
Prior to joining InterActive Legal in 2013, Vanessa practiced in New York, at Milbank LLP and Moses & Singer LLP, and in Kansas, at Hinkle Law Firm, LLC. She has experience in a range of estate planning matters, including high net worth tax planning and asset protection planning.
In 2024, Vanessa returned to the practice of law. She is Of Counsel at Becker and House, PLLC in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Elizabeth Q. Boehmcke, Esq.
Elizabeth (“Beth”) Boehmcke joined InterActive Legal in 2018 and served as Director of Content Development until she retired in 2025.
She graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. After graduation from law school through 2003, she specialized in high net worth estate planning, with an emphasis on cross-border and asset protection planning, and the representation of fiduciaries managing complex trusts and family businesses.
During her career in New York, she was an associate attorney at both Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) and Hodgson Russ in New York City. After a hiatus in her legal career to care for her children, she resumed her legal career by passing the Virginia bar in 2014 and began working for the Hook Law Center, P.C., where she expanded her estate planning practice to include elder law, specifically focusing on asset protection planning for Medicaid and Veteran’s benefits.
She is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia where she received a B.A. with distinction in Psychology in 1988 and is also a graduate of SUNY-Buffalo where she received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology in 1990.
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