Trusts and Estates
Ca. Trs. & Estates Quarterly VOLUME 30, ISSUE 4, 2024
Content
- Chairs of Section Subcommittees
- Editorial Board
- Inside This Issue
- Letter From the Chair
- Litigation Alert
- McLe Self-study Article A Planner's Guide To the Long-awaited California Uniform Directed Trust Act
- McLe Self-study Article Ethica Ex Machina or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Chatgpt | Ethical Considerations For Trusts and Estates Attorneys Using Generative Ai
- McLe Self-study Article Reconsidering the Advance Health Care Directive
- McLe Self-study Article Spears V. Spears: a Shiny New Option For Enforcing a Creditor's Claim Against a Trust
- Tax Alert
- Letter From the Editor
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Written by Nicholas J. Van Brunt*
Greetings. I am honored to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the Trusts & Estates Quarterly for the upcoming year. I am following in the footsteps of some of the preeminent practitioners in our field, and I take seriously the obligation to maintain the standards that our readers have come to expect from this publication. To that end, I heartily thank Erin Norcia for her tireless and successful work in leaving everything in such great condition for this upcoming year!
Our editorial board for the upcoming year consists of the following volunteers: Ryan Szcepanik, Matthew Owens, Laura Zeigler, Kristin Yokomoto, Kevin Bryce Jackson, Lisa Roper, Daniel Kim, Katy Fluet, and Erika Gasaway. Each of these individuals dedicates many hours of their fleeting "free time" to ensure the quality of this publication and I thank them very much for their hard and thoughtful work. Now let’s dive into this issue!
Are you worried that artificial intelligence is coming for your job? Don’t be scared. As Adam Streisand, J.D. Rees, and Taylor Mangan explain in Ethica Ex Machina: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ChatGPT | Ethical Considerations for Trusts & Estates Attorneys Using Generative AI, artificial intelligence is among the most powerful tools available to practitioners today, but practitioners must learn to use it responsibility and ethically or they otherwise do so at their peril.