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Estate Planning & Trusts
Each year, the approaching Holidays spark questions about the federal gift tax and its applicability to year-end gifts. We all quite naturally want to make gifts in this season so that we can watch our loved ones enjoy them. For those who can afford to do so, thi ...
This is our third article about the importance of planning for physical or mental disability. In a prior article, we focused on financial management planning alternatives for persons facing potential health crises and incapacity. In our last article, we noted tha ...
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 ...
We recently reviewed and extolled the benefits of Inheritance Trusts in three blog posts on this website. Two of the principal benefits of such trusts are to provide creditor and divorce protection for beneficiaries on accumulated trust income and to immunize such accumulate ...
Motor Vehicle Transfers to Maryland Revocable Living Trusts A question often arises when funding a new or existing revocable living trust (“living trust”) whether the trustmaker should retitle his or her motor vehicles to the trust. Two recently enacted Maryland laws have ad ...
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 ...