section update
Estate Planning & Probate Section Update
By Robert E. Turner, Chair
Turner Law, P.C.
robertturner@birch.net
O
ur Section members survived the snow and ice,
regrouped and showed out in force on March 12 after
the Winter Storm on February 12. Fifty-five Estate
Planning and Probate Section members as well as others
showed up to hear our speaker.
The most important reason that we had great attendance
was because of the quality of our speaker, Georgia Tax
Tribunal Judge Charles Beaudrot. Judge Beaudrot, with an
undergraduate degree from Duke and a law degree from
Harvard, is a perfectly charming and extremely bright man.
The state of Georgia cried out for a rational system to be put
in place to resolve tax disputes between the taxpayer and the
Commissioner of Revenue. Before the Tax Tribunal, resolving
tax disputes with the Commissioner of Revenue was almost
impossible short of going to Court. Now that the tax tribunal
is in place, the people of Georgia have a relatively fast and
efficient way to resolve disputes and there appears to be no
one better than Judge Beaudrot to lead the way.
On March 6 of this year, our section gathered at Gordon
Birch in Buckhead with the Atlanta Bar Tax and Elder Law
Sections and the Financial Planners of Georgia. The event
was a tremendous success with a large crowd attending. The
Social gave individuals a chance to meet many members of
all the involved sections that would not otherwise normally
be accessible in our regular meetings.
On May 1, not in April as I had previously reported, the wellknown and renowned Professor Mary Radford of Georgia
State University Law School will be speaking at Magg