Event

Estate Planning Workshop

Estate planning is a critical process to protect your assets and your loved ones during your life and after your death. An artist's creative property is an asset that, like all assets, must be disposed of upon death. Estate planning streamlines procedures and lowers expenses related to death and incapacity. It is one of the best ways to help your survivors with the difficult transition after your death. This workshop will cover essential concepts and documents everyone should consider as part of an estate plan, including the role of a will (and sometimes a living trust), beneficiary designations for assets that don't pass under your will (such as life insurance and retirement plan accounts), powers of attorney for property and personal decisions, and a living will or healthcare directives, with emphasis on considerations specific to artists' intellectual property, primarily copyrights.

Natasha Black is the principal of Natasha Black Law PLLC, which she founded after working for four years as an Associate in the Litigation and Trusts and Estates Groups of David Wright Tremaine LLP. She helps individuals and families with a broad range of estate planning services. After graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in 2004 with high honors, she served for two years as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Marlin J. Appelwick at the Washington Court of Appeals. Natasha received her bachelor's degree with honors in civil engineering from Brown University, and a master's degree in structural engineering from Stanford University. Some of her pro bono work with the King County Bar Association was profiled in the King County Bar Foundation's 2009-2010 annual report and highlighted in the King County Bar Bulletin. She was chosen by Super Lawyers in 2011 and 2012 as a Washington Rising Star in Estate Planning and Probate.