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[Gelt Retreat] Setting Up Wills For New Parents and the 'Just Married' with Barbara Katz

Georgia attorney Barbara Katz will discuss the documents that all marrying and/or married couples should complete to provide for their spouse and children, including wills, health care advance directives and financial powers of attorney.

Special attention will be given to trust and guardianship issues for minor children. 

A Q&A will also give us the opportunity to address specific questions you might have if you are a single parent, same sex couple, blended family, or family created through assisted reproduction.


This class is part of Gelt: Chanukah Retreat for Couples. Five nights of workshops with experts on everything money!

$20/couple for one class; $40/couple for the series.

All classes will be recorded, scrubbed of personal information, and shared with everyone who signed up.

Register for this class only here.

Register for the full series here.


Barbara E. Katz is a family formation attorney whose practice is dedicated to assisting individuals and all families in the area of adoption and assisted reproductive technology law, wills and estate planning, and issues related to the marriage relationship, such as prenuptial agreements.  She is especially dedicated to helping alternative families, such as same sex couples and single parents, with legal issues in their personal lives.

Barbara is a Fellow in the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.  She is also a charter Fellow in the Georgia Council of Adoption Lawyers, and a member of Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia, the National LGBT Bar Association, and the National Lawyers Guild.

Barbara has spoken on legal issues related to adoption, ART and estate planning for countless civic and religious groups. She has also spoken at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s seminar on adoption law.

Barbara graduated from the City University of New York School of Law in 1992, and was licensed for the practice of law in the state of Georgia later that year.

Barbara enjoys spending her free time with her wife and their unruly rescue dog, Izzy. Her passions include bicycling, quilting, knitting and English Country Dancing. She volunteers with the Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer on its bicycle crew.

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