Florida Tomorrow is a day...
when our assets and loved ones are protected.
Florida is one of the most populous states in the country and growing fast. It also features an unusually high number of the retired and elderly, with an accompanying need to provide topnotch programs and graduates well versed in their special needs. The UF Law Center for Estate and Elder Law Planning integrates teaching, training, research, scholarship and public service, and is dedicated to advancing estate planning, charitable giving, and elder law knowledge, professionalism, skills and policy by educating and training both students and lawyers.
“We offer meaningful academic programs and services, help prepare students to meet the challenges of an estates and trusts practice, and provide community services for the area’s elderly and poor. Many of our alumni practice in the field,” says Center Director Lee-ford Tritt. “I believe our center and our graduates can play a major role in shaping estates and trusts public policy and statutes in Florida and beyond.”
The center also administers the Certificate Program in Estates and Trusts Practice and supervises the Estates, Trusts and Elder Law Society, which enables students to participate in outreach programs as community service to the elderly, and judicial externships for academic credit, which have been established in probate divisions of several judicial circuits. It coordinates with UF’s Graduate Tax Program, is affiliated with the Institute for Learning in Retirement, which sponsors adult education courses on estate planning and elder law issues. and works closely with UF’s Oak Hammock retirement community, where faculty regularly teach classes to residents.
“Resources through the Florida Tomorrow campaign will help us train and shape the lawyers and leaders we need to enhance economic development and encourage successful entrepreneurship,” says Dean Jerry. “We also see it as our mandate to help others successfully manage their assets, both physical and personal, to the best uses for the well being of the state, the economy, their families, and themselves, and pass on those assets according to their wishes in later years.”
