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No Time Like the Present: Address Top Estate Planning Priorities Today

When it comes to estate planning, consider taking a page out of the Boy Scouts Handbook: Be prepared. The last thing you want is for your family to be scrambling to pick up the pieces after your death. Of course, you’ll need...more

Are Changes Coming for the Gift and Estate Tax Exemption?

Under current estate tax law, taxpayers benefit from the most generous gift and estate tax regime in history. Indeed, in 2023, an individual can shield assets worth up to $12.92 million from federal gift and estate tax....more

Does Your Estate Plan Account For Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax?

Does your estate plan call for making gifts to your grandchildren or other loved ones more than one generation below you? Or, perhaps to nonrelatives more than 37½ years younger than you?...more

A Living Trust and a Pour-Over Will: Two Estate Planning Documents Working in Tandem

At the very least, your estate plan should include a legally valid will governing the disposition of assets upon your death. But comprehensive estate planning often goes much further....more

Family Businesses Would Be Wise To Consider IRC Section 6166

It’s true that because of the current record-high gift and estate tax exemption amount, most families don’t have to worry about transfer taxes. However, there are high net worth individuals who must continue to work to reduce...more

Does Your Family Situation Call for a Spendthrift Trust?

You’ve likely spent most of your adult life accumulating wealth that you intend to eventually pass on to your loved ones. But are you concerned that the beneficiaries of your estate might squander their inheritance?...more

Net Gifts – A Gift-Giving Technique That Makes Sense in Certain Situations

Lifetime giving is a smart strategy to reduce your taxable estate. However, if you’ve exhausted your $12.06 million federal gift and estate tax exemption, your gifts may be fully taxable at the 40% rate. In this case,...more

Small Business Owners May Qualify For The Special Use Valuation Method

The need for estate planning is essential for small business owners who have most of their personal fortune tied up in the operation. This is compounded by the looming reduction of the federal gift and estate tax exemption...more

Decisions, Decisions: Many Factors Go Into Deciding When to Transfer Wealth

A critical estate planning decision is whether to transfer wealth during your lifetime or keep your assets in your estate and transfer your wealth to loved ones after your death. Some say it would be wise to make gifts now to...more

Don’t Count Out the Bypass Trust

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reported demise of the bypass trust may be greatly exaggerated. In fact, this estate planning technique is still a viable option for many individuals and may actually stage a “revival” in future...more

Take Full Advantage of Your Annual Gift Tax Exclusion

Did you know that one of the most effective estate-tax-saving techniques is also one of the simplest and most convenient? By making maximum use of the annual gift tax exclusion, you can pass substantial amounts of assets to...more

Family Education Trusts: Leave a Lasting Legacy For Your Heirs

Providing for the educational needs of your children, grandchildren and even future generations is an honorable estate planning objective. What are your options for achieving this goal? A 529 plan can be a highly effective...more

An ILIT Can Be a Wealth Preserver for your Family

Life insurance is often an integral part of an estate plan. By acquiring life insurance coverage, you can provide liquidity when your family might need it the most, particularly if you’re relatively young. The policy’s...more

Estate Planning Pitfall: You Don’t Meet the Tax Requirements For Splitting Gifts

The annual gift tax exclusion is a powerful tool in the estate planning toolbox. When using your annual exclusion, you don’t owe any gift tax on amounts transferred to another person up to a specified limit. The limit is...more

Is Now the Right Time to Forgive Intrafamily Loans?

Whether you made intrafamily loans years ago or perhaps this year in response to a loved one’s financial troubles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, consider forgiving those loans. Why? A record-high gift and estate tax exemption...more

Take the Proper Steps to Insulate Your Estate from Creditors

For years, you may have viewed estate taxes as the main threat to your family fortune, especially if you own a successful business or valuable real estate. But with the federal gift and tax exemption set at $11.58 million for...more

Insight on Estate Planning - October/November 2019: Estate planning with a foreign twist

If a married couple includes a non-U.S. citizen spouse, there are special estate planning rules to take into account, such as a significantly smaller estate tax exemption. This article explains the differences in estate tax...more

Insight on Estate Planning - October/November 2019

Do you know the differences in estate tax law for couples when both spouses are U.S. citizens vs. when one spouse is a non-U.S. citizen? Or what nonlegal document should accompany a will? We are pleased to present the...more

Insight on Estate Planning - April/May 2019: Expiration date: IRS provides estate tax protection against sunsetting TCJA...

Beginning in 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) effectively removed gift and estate tax liability concerns for many families. However, the favorable estate tax changes in the TCJA are currently scheduled to sunset after...more

Insight on Estate Planning - Yearend 2018

In This Issue: - Don’t be afraid of probate - Smart estate planning begins with protecting your assets - Thinking long term: Don’t overlook long-term care planning - ESTATE PLANNING PITFALL: You’re not making direct...more

Should a tax apportionment clause be in your estate plan?

Even though the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubled the gift and estate tax exemption to $10 million beginning this year, there are many families that still have to contend with significant federal estate tax liability. Plus, there...more

Insight on Estate Planning - August/September 2018

In This Issue: - Charitable giving in a post-TCJA world: What you need to know in the wake of the new tax law - Understanding the contents of a will - Should a tax apportionment clause be in your estate plan? - ESTATE...more

Estate Planning Pitfall: You reside in a state with high estate tax

Even though reforms being debated by Congress could repeal the federal estate tax with certain modifications, state estate taxes might still siphon off hundreds of thousands of dollars regardless of what happens under federal...more

Is a donor-advised fund right for you?

Those who make sizable gifts to charitable causes can realize personal rewards from their generosity and claim a deduction on their tax returns. One drawback is that, once the money or assets are contributed, they generally...more

Estate Planning Pitfall - You haven’t taken state estate taxes into account

A generous gift and estate tax exemption means only a small percentage of families are subject to federal estate taxes. But it’s important to consider state estate taxes as well. Although many states tie their exemption...more

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