How to Save Time & Taxes Handling Estates
A comprehensive guide to the federal estate tax return, including examples and practice tips to aid in making computations and in planning

Modern Estate Planning, Second Edition
The only book that fully integrates estate, gift and income taxation into a unified transactional approach to estate and financial planning

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Elaine Hightower Gagliardi writes fequently on estate planningis the author of the treatise, How to Save Time and Taxes Handling Estates, published by Matthew Bender, and is co-author, with Martin Burke and Mike Friel, of the five-volume treatise, Modern Estate Planning, Second Edition, published by Lexis Publishing. Gagliardi also writes frequently on estate and business planning, the most recent of which include "New Guidance on Annual Exclusion Gifts of Entity Interests," Tax Notes (2003); "Strangi III: Right Answer Wrong Reason? Or, Just Plain Wrong?" Tax Notes (2003); and "Economic Substance in the Context of Federal Estate and Gift Tax: The Internal Revenue Service has it Wrong," Montgomery Law Review (2003).

As an Associate Professor at The University of Montana School of Law, Gagliardi teaches courses in estate planning, business organizations, business transactions, and nonprofit organizations. She also serves as the faculty supervisor to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Law School Clinic.

Prior to teaching estate and business planning, Gagliardi practiced with the law firm of Perkins Coie, Seattle, Wash.; and Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Conn. She clerked for the Honorable William J. Jameson, Senior Judge, United States District Court for Montana; and the Honorable James R. Browning, then Chief Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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• Past chairperson, Business, Estates, Trust, Tax and Real Estate Section, State Bar of Montana

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