A Lie-Hamilton system is a nonautonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations describing the integral curves of a t-dependent vector field taking values in a finitedimensional real Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields with respect to a Poisson structure. We provide new algebraic/geometric techniques to easily determine the properties of such Lie algebras on the plane, e.g., their associated Poisson bivectors. We study new and known Lie-Hamilton systems on R 2 with physical, biological and mathematical applications. New results cover Cayley-Klein Riccati equations, the here defined planar diffusion Riccati systems, complex Bernoulli differential equations and projective Schrödinger equations. Constants of motion for planar Lie-Hamilton systems are explicitly obtained which, in turn, allow us to derive superposition rules through a coalgebra approach. MSC: 34A26 (primary) 70G45, 70H99 (secondary)Hence, system (1.4) with a R 1 (t) = 0 is a LH system as it is related to a t-dependent vector field taking values in a Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebra V of Hamiltonian vector fields relative to Λ. Since V ≃ R ⋉ R 2 ≃ X 1 ⋉ X 2 , X 3 , X 1 ∧ X 2 = 0 and ad X 1 : X i ∈ X 2 , X 3 → [X 1 , X i ] ∈ X 2 , X 3 is not diagonalizable over R, we see in view of table 1 that the Lie algebra V belongs to class P 1 and V ≃ iso(2). Meanwhile, the LH algebra spanned by h 1 , h 2 , h 3 , h 0 is isomorphic to the centrally extended Euclidean algebra iso(2) (see also [13] for further details).On the other hand, we recall that superposition rules for LH systems can be obtained in an algebraic way by applying a Poisson coalgebra approach [19]. In contrast, other methods to derive superposition rules require to integrate a Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebra, e.g., the group theoretical method [2], or to solve a family of PDEs [9]. Winternitz and coworkers have also derived superposition rules for Lie systems in particular forms [2,5]. The application of this latter result for general Lie systems requires to map them into the canonical form for which the superposition rule was obtained. The coalgebra procedure makes these transformations unnecessary in many cases.The structure of the paper is as follows. In section 2 we summarize the local classification of Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebras as of Hamiltonian vector fields on the plane performed in [13], where the corresponding symplectic structures were derived by solving a system of PDEs. As a first new achievement, we show in section 3 that such symplectic structures can be determined through algebraic and geometric methods. Although our techniques are heavily based upon the Lie algebra structure of Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebras, they also depend on their geometric properties as Lie algebras of vector fields. In particular, a new method to construct symplectic structures for LH systems on the plane related to non-simple Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebras is described.Next we remark that a Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebra on the plane isomorphic to sl(2) can be diffeomorphic to either P 2 , I 3 ...