Gay marriage will have implications to estate planners for sure...I am a person. For estate planners, one would expect future documents to be gender neutral
Facebook has been around for nearly a decade already. As an attorney, do you ever wonder what happens to your clients’ Facebook profiles and the content posted therein, when they die? What about your client’s other digital accounts? Increasingly, our clients compile a complex digital...
Note that this blog was written before the issuance of Executive Order 2020-41 which allows for remote witnessing and notarization. Because of the challenging weeks ahead, I wanted to share a sample protocol that my firm is using. We think it will help to protect yourself, your family...
These incidents are on the rise, and they are the fastest growing form of real estate cybercrime in the United States according to an analysis by the Miami Herald . FBI information provided to the Herald showed that for fiscal year 2017, nearly $1 billion was diverted or attempted to be diverted from real estate transactions. Hackers typically monitor e-mails of lenders, real estate agents, title companies, and even the seller or purchaser, reports Doug McIntyre in Northern Nevada Business , in order to identify a pattern of communication that indicates a transaction will occur and when
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This case arises in the context of a series of cases that have been decided by the COA since Michigan first adopted an “estate recovery” law in 2007
This was particularly true this last fall and winter, when estate planners and elder law practitioners were awaiting the remote notarization and witnessing legislation
The 2017 TCJA is a sweeping tax reform law that will change the tax landscape, encompassing significant changes related to corporate and individual income taxes and estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. The TCJA doubles the base estate and gift tax exemption amount from $5 million to $10 million for estates of decedents dying, as well as gifts made, after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2026