Rebecca C. Morgan, Esq.
Rebecca is a full-time law professor at Stetson University’s College of Law where she teaches Elder Law and Trusts and Estates. She is the co-author of Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts (ABA), Tax, Estate and Financial Planning for the Elderly and its companion forms book (Lexis), Fundamentals of Special Needs Trusts (Lexis), Ethics in an Elder Law Practice (ABA), and Planning for Disability (Bloomberg BNA Portfolio). She is also the co-author of Elder Law in Context (Aspen) and Bankruptcy in Context (Aspen), and Mastering Interviewing and Counseling (CAP).
Rebecca’s interest in special needs planning stems from her belief that the law can provide a more level playing field for everyone. “If we can make life a little better for someone, then we should give our best efforts to do so.”
In addition to teaching and writing, she is a past president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, past president of the board of directors of Justice in Aging, past chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Aging and the Law and of the Florida Bar Elder Law Section, and on the faculty of the National Judicial College. She served on the Florida Attorney General’s Task Force on Elder Abuse and the Florida Legislative Guardianship Study Commission. She is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), the academic advisory board for the Borchard Center for Law and Aging, an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel (ACTEC), a NAELA fellow, and a member of NAELA’s Council of Advanced Practitioners (chair 2012–2014). After a term on the Board of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, she is a special advisor to the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She served on the board of directors for the Center for Medicare Advocacy and the American Society on Aging.
Rebecca earned a B.S. from the Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri, and her J.D. from the Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida.