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Beyond Taxes: 10 Important Reasons Why Everyone Needs an Estate Plan

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People often assume that if their estate isn’t taxable, they don’t need to have an estate plan. In 2023, a Massachusetts estate tax return must be filed if the value of the deceased person’s gross estate exceeds $1 million. A...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Responding To The Divorce Where One Spouse Is Ready To “Burn Down The (Financial) House.”

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Extreme times produce irrational responses. A day ago, an unhappy orthopedic patient in Oklahoma decided it was time to kill his surgeon. He took three other lives as well as these people got “in his way.”...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Risk of Personal Liability Despite Incorporation

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One of the fundamental principles of corporate law is that the owners, directors and officers of a corporate entity generally are not personally responsible for the entity’s debts. Without this insulation from personal...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Family Farmer Relief Act Expands Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Protections for Small and Mid-Sized Farms

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Running a family-owned farm is not easy work under the best of economic circumstances, and it can be nearly impossible when times are tough. More than 30 years ago, during the mid-1980s, John Cougar Mellencamp’s mournful song...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - April/May 2018

In This Issue: - Estate planning for your business: Use an ESOP to properly address your closely held company - Are your assets protected from creditors? - Preparing a parent for a nursing home - ESTATE PLANNING...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Recent Cases of Interest to Fiduciaries

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In re Estate of House, 2014 Wash. App. LEXIS 3006 (Wash. Ct. App. 2014) - A release waiving any and all claims that the parties may have or may acquire, bars recovery for unknown claims existing at the time the release...more

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