Perhaps the greatest development in the world of elder care and special needs law during 2009 was the lack of any real development. With the national debate raging over health insurance and health care reform, we're disappointed that only minimal...

Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness. Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, waiting to be fed. Waiting to be fed. Waiting to be fed. Here we sit, like birds in the wilderness, waiting to be fed. Anyone who has...

The way we gave in 2009 will be with us for a long time. Our country's economic crisis has occasioned a sea of change in the way individuals, foundations, corporations and the government respond to society's needs. That change will prove to be...

The year 2009 was less than two weeks old when Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) introduced a bill1 with the express purpose of legislatively prohibiting discounts for transfers of interests in family-owned holding companies when the underlying...

The year 2009 was very rough on retirement accounts. Not only did they take a hit from the economic downturn, but also many suffered because of swindlers like Bernard Madoff. And some were drained by the very rules, bureaucracies and agencies set...