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Estate Planning for Your Real Estate Business: Tips to Preserve Value

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Real estate business owners face unique challenges that many business owners in other industries do not experience. The real estate market climbs and falls, contractor fees and material costs rise with inflation, and high...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

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

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

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

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

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

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Estate Planning Pitfall - You haven’t transferred ownership of a life insurance policy to a trust

After recent tax legislation, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, few tax shelters are left standing. One key exception is life insurance. This brief article details that, if certain requirements are met, the buildup of...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The New Estate Tax Law – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

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Increase in Exemption from Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes - On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") was signed into law. The Act implements a variety of significant tax reforms....more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

2016 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

In 2016, we continued to experience a period of relative stability in our federal transfer tax system and have been able to plan without expecting imminent significant changes to the system. Under the American Taxpayer Relief...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Should life insurance be a part of your estate plan?

Today, the federal gift and estate tax exemption stands at $5.45 million, so fewer families are facing estate tax liability. This begs the question: Can life insurance continue to play an important role in estate planning?...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Estate Planner - July/August 2012

In This Issue: - Is your estate plan flexible? Estate tax law uncertainty requires options - No time like the present: With favorable estate tax and real estate environments, use a QPRT to give away your home -...more

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