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Estate Planning & Trusts
We previously provided an overview of Charitable Remainder Trusts (“CRTs”) and suggested that now might be a good time to employ this strategy to avoid immediate capital gains taxes on appreciated or concentrated marketable securities positions. That overview has sparked a ...
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Estate Planning: When Science Gets Ahead of the Law Traditionally, Americans and the law have thought of families as mothers, fathers and their children conceived by conventional methods and brought to term in the mother’s womb. ...
In our last article, we focused on the importance of lifetime planning for Mature Single Individuals and some of the impediments they face in accomplishing such planning. This article focuses on financial management planning alternatives for persons confronted with potentia ...
Estate planning generally addresses three primary goals: keeping the client in control of his or her person and property while he or she is alive and well; taking care of the client and his or her loved ones if the client becomes incapacitated; and carrying out the client’s ...
I am often asked if Estate Planning has gotten easier as a result of recent changes in federal and Maryland estate tax law. My response: Estate Planning has not gotten easier, it has just become different. Coupled with other changes in society (e.g., lengthening mortality, v ...
Inflation Adjustments and Initial Observations on the 2017 Tax Act’s Impacts: In late October, the Internal Revenue Service issued its inflation-adjusted exemptions, exclusions and tax brackets to be used for 2018 federal tax returns. See generally, Internal Revenue Notice 2 ...
PART 1: Inheritance Trusts and How They Work The key to estate planning is understanding clients’ goals for the process. Generally, as a primary overarching goal, clients cite their desire to maintain their assets for as long as possible as a safety net protecting themselves ...
PART 2: The Benefits of Using Inheritance Trusts In part 1 of this series, we described Inheritance Trusts and how they can achieve clients’ desires to maintain their assets for as long as possible as a safety net protecting themselves and their loved ones from both anticipa ...
The Logistics of Inheritance Trusts In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we described Inheritance Trusts and how they can achieve clients’ desires to maintain their assets for as long as possible as a safety net protecting themselves and their loved ones from both anticipated a ...
A Personal Representative is the individual who is appointed to carry out all of the duties of collecting a decedent’s assets, paying the decedent’s outstanding obligations, and distributing the remaining property to the decedent’s legatees or heirs. When you become a Person ...