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P. Kristen Bennett on Fundamentals of Will Drafting and Estate Administration

P. Kristen Bennett on Fundamentals of Will Drafting and Estate Administration

P. Kristen "Kristen" Bennett

P. Kristen Bennett

June 16, 2022 03:29 PM

Trusts and estates attorney P. Kristen Bennett presented a Continuing Legal Education course (CLE) for the Delaware State Bar Association on “Fundamentals of Will Drafting and Estate Administration.” The course is offered every other year by DSBA, and this is Bennett’s fourth time presenting for it.

Program highlights from March 30, 2022 included:

  • Overview of Estate Planning ­
    Overview of Estate Administration ­
    Basics of Will Drafting ­
    Practice and Procedure Before the
    Register of Wills

Bennett is a partner at Gawthrop Greenwood who is a member of the Delaware Bar Association’s Estates and Trusts Section and Tax Section, as well as the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She is on the Estate Planning Council of Delaware, Inc.

Bennett also serves as a board member for Delaware CarePlan, Inc., a nonprofit nongovernmental organization, which serves as trustee of special and supplemental trusts created for the benefit of Delaware residents. She was named to the Brandywine Health Foundation, recently renamed the Alliance for Health Equity, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of people who live and work in the greater Coatesville area by fostering community partnerships, providing capacity-building support and making grants to promote health equity and a healthy community.

For more information on Kristen’s law practice, email kbennett@gawthrop.com or call 302-777-5353.

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