Our cover this month, “Les Belles Reálités” (131/2 in. by 101/4 in) by René Magritte, sold for $1,450,106 at Sotheby’s Surrealist Art Evening Sale in London on Feb. 3, 2015. The Belgium-born Magritte was...
When I was a teenager enamored with clothes shopping, my mother would often take me to the Loehmann’s store in Brooklyn (near our home). She prided herself on paying the lowest amount for an item as compared to the suggested retail price. If...
Our cover this month, “The Gardener’s Daughter” (91/8 in. by 71/2 in.) by John Ingle Lee, recently sold for $23,550 at Christie’s Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Sale in London on Dec. 11...
The Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning in Orlando, Fla. is now a distant memory for many of us. But, if you missed the conference, you needn’t feel left out. A summary of the topics that were covered will be provided in “A View...
The following words are all derived in some uniform way from names on Fortune magazine’s list of the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies in 2014. Your challenge is to discover the rule and unscramble the words to derive the names of the...
The cover of this special section, “Baccarat Dealer (The Girls of Caesars Palace)” (30 in. by 24 in.) by LeRoy Neiman, sold for $43,750 at Heritage’s recent American Art Signature Auction on
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Our cover this month, “Roulette Dealer (The Girls of Caesars Palace)” (30 in. by 24 in.) by LeRoy Neiman, sold for $84,375 at Heritage’s recent American Art Signature Auction in New York on Nov. 17, 2014.
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As our editorial advisory board committee chairs indicate in their year-in-review columns, there were some important court cases decided in 2014 that apply broadly to different areas of estate planning. For example, in Clark v. Rameker, the U.S...
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