Avoiding Family Conflict with Estate Planning
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/your-money/wills-avoiding-family-conflict.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0
Sound estate planning now, will save time, money and anguish later.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveparrish/2014/05/13/legal-mistakes-that-haunt-after-death-three-cases/#37ef756f6467
Do You Need a Trust for Your Estate Plan?
The attached article provides a good explanation of trust planning.
NYS Estate Tax Changes: The Good News, and the Bad News
As of April 1st New York state doubled its estate tax exemption – the amount you can leave your heirs without paying state estate tax – and it is set to rise gradually through 2019 to eventually match the federal exemption, projected by then to be $5.9 million. That will make estate tax planning much easier […]
Gov. Cuomo Proposes Changes to NYS Estate Tax
New York is one of only fourteen states that tax estates. That means in addition to the federal estate tax, a New York estate could be paying another 9% – 16% to Albany – a fact that some believe is leading to a migration from New York to other states. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new budget […]
Separation and Divorce in the age of social media can be dangerous!
Posting an angry rant on Facebook or Twitter is far more dangerous than standing on your front steps and yelling it. Internet posts never fully disappear, and any attempt to delete your post could be construed as tampering with evidence, if someone wants to use the post in court. Click here for an interesting article […]
