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What If Your Beneficiary Is Missing?

Locating missing heirs after the death of their benefactor can require detective work worthy of Sam Spade.
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Estate Planning ‘Step-Up’ in Basis

The “step-up” in basis has to do with the calculation of the capital gains on the sale of property.
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Multigenerational Estate Planning?

When multiple generations live on the same property, issues over ownership, who inherits what and who provides what can get complicated fast.
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Married Couples Estate Tax Exemptions

A primary goal of most married couples when contemplating basic estate planning documents is to ensure that the surviving spouse, and commonly, the couple's children and grandchildren, are supported financially.
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Finding Out About Your Inheritance

You may not always know it if you have an inheritance coming. And in some cases, you may not even know the individual has passed on.
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Family Vacation Home for Generations?

The family vacation home is often a point of pride, a place for reconnecting and making memories. A vacation home, whether it’s in the mountains, near the sea, on a lake, or on a farm, can have sentimental as much as economic value.
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Considerations for Selling Your Business

All business owners will have to exit their business either through retirement or undertaking a new endeavor. Some will leave it to a successor, while others will sell. Regardless of what you choose to do, it is never too early to start planning.
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Tax Portability for Second Marriage?

The family’s attorney and family office advisors should exercise caution in a marriage in which there are children from a prior marriage or other nonstandard family situations.
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Not Eligible for Section 1014 Step-Up

On March 30, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Ruling 2023-2, which directly impacts a wide range of irrevocable trusts, including grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, insurance trusts and other intentionally defective ‘grantor trusts.’
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Expiration of Tax Cuts

This sunsetting creates a big imperative for business owners to take a closer look at tax planning, and not treat a grim fiscal inevitability like another unfortunate surprise.
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