Top Gun: Maverick - Core Estate Plan and Gifting Basics
US Expatriate Tax Planning - Part 2 - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
How Tax Works - Entity Selection
TRAs: Benefits, Complexities (and Private Jets) Explained with Tax Attorney David Peck
REFRESH: Loot and Private Foundation Rules – Part 2
IRS Dirty Dozen Warnings on Charitable Scams
US Expatriate Tax Planning - Part 1 - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Spotlight Series: A Conversation With Women Trailblazers in Tax
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in North Carolina and South Carolina
Once Removed Episode 19: The Step-Transaction Doctrine and the Case of Smaldino
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Influencers
Once Removed Episode 18: The Reciprocal Trust Doctrine
Business Better Podcast Episode: Tax Audits, Investigations, and Global Enforcement - A Conversation with IRS Special Agent Jonathan Schnatz
Charitable Planning With Guest Stephanie Hood: Navigating Complex Rules and Traps for the Unwary
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 28 - Under the Microscope: Examining the Future of the ERC
Once Removed Episode 16: Gift and Estate Tax, Inflation Adjustments for 2024
Once Removed Episode 17: Annual Gifting to Individuals: Options, Opportunities and Pitfalls
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Inside the IRS: A Conversation With Former Agency Officials
The New Proposed Regulations on DAFs: Taxable Distributions and the Penalty Tax
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Pillar Two Analysis: An Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Revocable trusts - Don’t forget to fund the trust throughout your lifetime - Many estate plans are built around revocable trusts (sometimes called “living trusts”). These trusts allow you to 1) avoid the time, expense...more
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Trusts come in many variations, rendering them often difficult for non-attorneys to follow and comprehend. Indeed, this variation can often be seen in the nomenclature used for trust arrangements, which includes terms such...more
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In the next webinar in our Estate Planning 101 series, wealth preservation attorney Whitney Patience O’Reilly will discuss the basics of trusts. She will review the differences between revocable and irrevocable trusts and...more
During COVID, many of us are balancing working remotely while caring for our children. This autumn, most of our children are returning to part-time or all remote school. We are using our residences as a home, office, and...more
This is a surrealistic time for most of us, but we will come out on the “other side” and we still need to plan for the future. We should continue to take at least basic steps to plan our estates, like preparing wills and/or...more
Yes, sometimes your estate plan can be changed AFTER you die to alter bequests made in Wills and Revocable Trusts. (For ease, “will” is used throughout this article.) This is done to change ownership of assets and/or to...more
Clients and Friends: We at Proskauer wish you health and safety during these tumultuous times. It is our hope that you are handling this new reality with as much normalcy as is possible. We are sending you this...more
Q: What is estate planning? Johanna Wise Sullivan: Estate planning entails planning for the care of your family and your assets in the event of your death or incapacity as efficiently and seamlessly as possible. This includes...more
The "Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019" ("SECURE Act"), which Congress passed at the end of 2019, included changes that may significantly affect how your retirement accounts fit into your...more
Blank Rome’s annual estate and tax planning newsletter addresses certain concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2020 by our clients and friends in California. Perhaps the most important and troublesome...more
If you are getting divorced, you may find that your marital assets include interests in one or more trusts. It could be that you and your spouse established the trusts during your lifetime, or perhaps a family member created...more
As estate planners, we have seen it all over the years. What we have learned is that people make some common mistakes. Whether due to procrastination, lack of follow through, or ignoring their own mortality! This article...more
A “Grantor Trust” is a trust you create during your life that you own for income tax purposes. This means that the trust is not a separate taxpayer from you. The income, losses, deductions, and credits of the Grantor Trust...more
Blank Rome’s annual estate and tax planning newsletter addresses estate planning concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2019 by our clients and friends. 1. Transfer Taxes. The major changes made in 2010 in...more
Blank Rome’s annual estate planning newsletter discusses certain concepts and techniques that we hope may be of interest to our clients and friends....more
In your experience, what’s the most costly mistake people make when preparing estate plans, and what can they do to fix them? That’s the question we recently put to attorneys writing on JD Supra....more