Trusts & Estates Update: October 2013

October 2013 Powers of Attorney and Health Care Documents: An Integral Part of Every Estate Plan A power of attorney, a health care proxy, and a medical privacy release (“HIPAA Authorization”), are powerful tools and an essential part of your estate plan. If these documents are not in place when they are needed, your family…

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Trusts & Estates Update: July 2013

July 2013 Historic Change in Planning for Same Sex Couples On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in United States v. Windsor, striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), which defined marriage as that between one man and one woman for all federal purposes. The Court stated that…

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Trust & Estates Update: May 2013

May 2013 Why Do You Need an Estate Plan? Often people delay putting an estate plan in place, or they may have preliminary draft documents but they fail to complete the process. Although they have spent time and effort accumulating assets, they wonder why they need to invest the time, effort and expense in a plan…

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Trusts & Estates Update: January 2013

January 2013 Volume II, Issue I What Does The New Tax Act Mean For You And Your Estate Plan? As has become customary over the last several years, Congress acted at the very last minute to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” by passing the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (“ATRA”). ATRA was signed into law on…

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Trusts & Estates Update: October 2012

October 2012 Volume I, Issue I Significant Estate and Gift Tax Law Changes Looming! On December 17, 2010, Congress and President Obama signed temporary legislation that took most people by surprise when they agreed to increase and unify the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax exemptions to a single sum of $5 million per…

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Trusts and Estates Practice Group Launches Quarterly Newsletter

RIW’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group launched its’ quarterly newsletter “Trusts & Estates Update”. Click here to read the most current issue.

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