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Points & Authorities - Fall 2012

In This Issue: - The Innovative Design Protection Act: Bound for Success or Doomed to Fail? - Strategic Licensing Considerations - New Faces - Points from the President - Think Again Before Walking Away from...more

Forget about Georgia - Ray Charles' Children have Copyright Royalties on their mind.

**UPDATED BELOW** When Ray Charles passed away in 2004, his twelve children had accepted a $500,000 irrevocable trust and agreed that they would not seek anything further from his estate following his death. Now, some...more

Forget about Georgia - Ray Charles' Children have Copyright Royalties on their mind.

When Ray Charles passed away in 2004, his twelve children had accepted a $500,000 irrevocable trust and agreed that they would not seek anything further from his estate following his death. Now, some eight years later, his...more

Beyond the Grave- What Happens to Your Digital Assets When You Die?

What would happen to your online persona if you died? After all, it is the digital age, and individuals are creating online personalities on a more regular basis. In addition, banking, and bill pay services are not digital....more

Intellectual property requires careful estate planning

Intellectual property (IP), such as patents and copyrights, can have great value, but in many ways they’re treated differently from other property types. This article explains the differences between patents and copyrights....more

Planning for the four-legged member of your family : WealthCounsel Quarterly

Beneficial to San Diego Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning Lawyers. Helping your pet-owning client plan their pets care after their death is just as important as planning for children, especially when pets with special needs...more

Insight on Estate Planning - October/November 2012

In This Issue: - Considering an ILIT? Now’s the time - Intellectual property requires careful estate planning - Defined-value gifts: Give now, value later - Estate Planning Pitfall: Your family doesn’t know where...more

Insights - Spring 2012

In This Issue: JOBS Act: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act; Fracking: Ohio’s New Oil and Gas Boom; 2012 Estate Planning; American Airlines: Who’s Flying the Plane? Labor Law Update; S Corporations; Blow to Method...more

Guide to Incorporating an Ontario Business Corporation

Incorporation Guide...more

Family Wealth Care

Business-owning families are aware of the risks of trying to manage personal wealth inside their companies, in most cases they do not act because they believe change would be difficult, they do not have family support or they...more

The Art Of Taxes: Major Changes To The Federal Transfer Tax System

Ars longs, vita brevis. Art is immortal, artists are mortal. Taxes impinge on every part of the art world and are a concern for both artists and collectors. Planning for and administering estates of artists and owners of art...more

Protecting An Artist's Legacy Through Estate Planing, Probate and Post-Death Administratin Part 2

Part 2 of 2: In the US alone, thousands of copyright creators and/or copyright owners die each year. How many of these folks create a comprehensive estate plan, or even a basic will or simple trust? The goal of estate...more

Protecting An Artist's Legacy Through Estate Planing, Probate and Post-Death Administratin Part 1

Part 1 of 2: In the US alone, thousands of copyright creators and/or copyright owners die each year. How many of these folks create a comprehensive estate plan, or even a basic will or simple trust? The goal of estate...more

Estate Planning: Intellectual Property Considerations By Kathleen A. Ryan, Esq. and Lalitha Rao, Esq.

When developing an estate plan, it is important to address intellectual property assets differently from other types of property, such as real estate, stocks or bonds. Here are some basic points to consider when the estate...more

California Beneficiary v. California Trust

Petition Determine Validity of Trust, Accounting, Remove Trustees, Breach of Trust

PETITION TO DETERMINE VALIDITY OF PURPORTED TRUST AMENDMENT; SUSPEND AND REMOVE CO-TRUSTEES AND APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE; FOR OTHER RELIEF FOR BREACH OF TRUST; FOR AN ACCOUNTING; FOR INSTRUCTIONS [PROBATE CODE...more

Estate Planning for Intellectual Property

It is important to plan your estate carefully by considering these valuable assets so that they are appropriately transferred to your heirs according to your wishes upon your death...As intellectual property becomes more...more

Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson

Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson

The Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson dated July 7, 2002....more

Audio Interview: Legal Issues Surrounding Michael Jackson Estate

In the document viewing window below, click the blue line under CREATE PROTECT BLAWGCAST (which takes you to a different document viewing window) to hear my interview with California probate attorney Jennifer Sawday on the...more

Saunders v. Jerry Garcia Estate, LLC

First Amended Complaint

The latest suit against assets once controlled by Jerry Garcia involves the trust holding the publicity rights of musician Merl Saunders vs Jerry Garcia Estate, LLC. Merl Saunders performed hundreds of times with Garcia...more

Michael Jackson's Estate: What Happens Next?

The question that has been raised repeatedly today is what happens to Michael Jackson’s estate? I suspect Michael Jackson had a strategic estate, wealth, and asset protection plan that included layers of trusts and...more

In Re the Estate of James Brown and The James Brown 2000 Trust

Hollander v The Estate of James Brown

James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, died Christmas Day 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia. Problems with Brown’s estate came to the surface when it was clear that his wife at the...more

In Re the Estate of James Brown and The James Brown 2000 Trust

Unapproved Draft Settlement Agreement

James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, died Christmas Day 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia. Problems with Brown’s estate came to the surface when it was clear that his wife at the...more

In Re the Estate of James Brown and The James Brown 2000 Trust

James Brown 2000 Irrevocable Trust

James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, died Christmas Day 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia. Problems with Brown’s estate came to the surface when it was clear that his wife at the...more

In Re the Estate of James Brown and The James Brown 2000 Trust

Last Will of James Brown

James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, died Christmas Day 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia. Problems with Brown’s estate came to the surface when it was clear that his wife at the...more

Notice of Deposition of Corporation Designee

Notice of Deposition for Corporation Designee (officer, employee, etc. of a corporation party as a plaintiff or as a defendant)....more