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Cozen O'Connor

DNA Testing in BC Estate Litigation: Key Takeaways for Parentage and Inheritance Disputes

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Courts in British Columbia continue to evaluate when genetic testing should be used to resolve estate disputes. A recent Supreme Court of British Columbia decision in Morberg Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2265 provides important...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

Surviving Spouse's Checklist

Losing a spouse is an overwhelming experience, and the practical tasks that follow can feel especially daunting. While every estate is different, having a clear roadmap of what to address and when can help you stay organized...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

2026 Legal Checklist for Michigan Farmers

As Michigan farmers enter 2026, they face a rapidly evolving landscape with new legal challenges and opportunities. Regularly reviewing the following checklist can help you spot issues early, minimize risks, and strengthen...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

5 Easy But Effective Year-End Tax Strategies That Can Meaningfully Cut Your 2025 Tax Bill

As 2025 comes to a close, business owners and other high-income individuals still have an opportunity to make strategic moves that can materially reduce their tax liability and improve cash flow....more

Offit Kurman

Cybersecurity Insights for the Sandwich Generation with Dan Krutoy

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In this episode of The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide, host Candace Dellacona welcomes Dan Krutoy, a tech industry expert who shares advice for seniors who are often targeted by scammers using social engineering tactics,...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: ‘Tis the Season (and the Year) to Give — 2025

New Limits on Charitable Tax Benefits Coming in 2026 - As the end of 2025 quickly approaches, all taxpayers will have one last opportunity to review their tax planning and to consider making year-end gifts to one or more...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Life Insurance, Buy-Sell Agreements, and the Connelly Problem: What Closely Held Business Owners Need to Know

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Closely held businesses routinely use life insurance to fund buy-sell obligations when an owner dies. The logic is simple: the company or surviving owners need liquidity to effect redemptions or repurchases, and life...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Lessons Learned from Our Annual Seminar: Stewardship, Ethics, and Accountability

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At Robins Kaplan’s annual Fiduciary and Wealth Disputes Seminar “What Keeps Fiduciaries Up At Night?” attendees heard from John Taft, Vice Chair at Baird and a 40-year veteran of the financial services industry....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Personal Planning Strategies - December 2025

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What This Means for Your Current Will, Revocable Trust and Estate Plan - The federal estate and gift tax regimes have been unified since the passage of The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of...more

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Wealth Management Update - December 2025

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The December 2025 Section 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 4.6%, the same as in November. The December applicable federal rate (“AFR”) for use with a sale to a defective...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Bakwin Ruling Sheds Light on Trustee Removal and No Contest Clauses in Virginia

The Virginia Court of Appeals recently ruled that a lawsuit seeking to remove a trustee does not trigger a no contest clause. This decision is both valuable and timely, as it clarifies what many attorneys in Virginia have...more

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act – 2025 Popular Reads on JD Supra

A recap of some of the most widely read updates and analysis covering the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) as published on JD Supra throughout 2025...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Estate Planning Considerations for Blended Families

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Although blended families are common, they often encounter unique complexities after the death of a loved one. Assets may be left outright to a surviving spouse, who may then change the terms of the estate plan. Careful...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Trusts and Estates Law Changes – Looking Ahead to 2026

The beginning of 2025 marked an uncertain year for estate tax planning purposes. With the estate tax exemptions set forth by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act scheduled to expire at the conclusion of the year, there was much...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Joining a Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund? Don't Overlook the Immediate Estate Planning Opportunity

Landing a portfolio manager role at a top multi-strategy hedge fund can be a career-defining moment. It can also catapult your personal net worth into the stratosphere overnight. Rapid wealth creation comes with a new...more

Offit Kurman

A Future Worth Celebrating: Estate Planning for the New Year

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As the holiday season approaches, families gather to reconnect, reflect, and prepare for the year ahead. For many households, it is one of the few times when adult children, aging parents, and extended family members are all...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

After centuries of courtroom battles, states breathe new life into undue influence claims

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When a person manipulates someone into changing their will, what’s a family member who finds themselves cut out of an inheritance to do?...more

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Traceable economic value of fraudulently acquired property may be made the subject of a constructive trust: Two procedural...

Assume fraudulent representations by the owner of a residence with multiple hidden material defects that the defects were non-existent induce Jones to purchase residence. Call that residence the “old residence.” The unjustly...more

Law School Toolbox

Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 337: Listen and Learn -- Will Revocation

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we explain the ways in which a validly executed will can be revoked (by a subsequent document, by a physical act, and by operation of law), and analyze examples...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Make Planning for the Future Your New Year’s Resolution

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The future is not an easy topic to discuss but a necessary one to ensure that your wishes are carried out. As the saying goes, there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. Unfortunately, if you live in Massachusetts...more

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Who Needs a Prenuptial Agreement?

My son got married recently and shortly before the wedding, a non-lawyer friend asked me if my son and his now wife had a prenuptial agreement, that I prepared, of course. My answer was no, because I didn’t see how two...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

The Clock is Ticking: Why Many Business Owners Need to Start Succession Planning Yesterday

According to the United State Census Bureau’s 2022 Annual Business Survey, over half of the business owners in the United States are 55 years of age or older. In Ohio, this percentage is even higher, with 56.2% of businesses...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Elder Law Is for Everyone Part 2: Medicaid Homecare

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Often, people with long-term medical or cognitive conditions that limit their ability to manage their daily care need in-home assistance. Since home care typically costs between $25 and $35 an hour, without long-term care...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Making a List and Checking It Twice: Year-End Planning Ideas, Part 1 of 2

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As 2025 draws to a close, there are several areas in which high-net-worth taxpayers should be focusing their attention to maximize tax savings for the year and plan for changes to tax law in the year ahead. Use Qualified...more

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Taxes, the Surrender of Permanent Life Insurance, and Something to Chew On

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If you’re reading this post, you survived the Thanksgiving holiday – hopefully, without much family drama. Then again, there may have been moments, inspired by an overload of obligatory togetherness, that caused you to think...more

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