Babe Ruth's biographer, the sports writer Leigh Montville, has written that the famous baseball player's early years, spent mostly in an orphanage, are covered in a fog that settles over everything and will not leave.1 This description also fits...
Move this to the top of your to-do list: Call clients to arrange a digital audit so that together you can plan for all their passwords, online accounts and digital property
When a trust is to be the recipient of retirement plan assets and you want it to benefit from stretch-out, you're going to need to qualify that trust as a “see-through trust.”
When times are good, it's easy for everyone to work well together. But when money gets tight? During the lengthy recessions of the early 1980s and mid-1970s, tensions sometimes developed between two camps: wealth advisors and fundraisers...
It is well-settled law in all of our states that a husband and wife can contract with one another.1 It's also well-settled that, in all states, future spouses can enter into a pre-marital contract, fixing their respective rights in separation...
The booby prize when property held in trust is included in a decedent's taxable estate is that the property receives a fresh income tax basis. So, there's estate tax on the property because it's in the estate. But at least the fresh basis wipes...
Estate planning for professional athletes can be a whole different ballgame. For most clients, estate planning takes into account wealth that will be, or has been, accumulated over many years. The lawyer's job is to arrange for the orderly...
