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December 2, 2024

Lessons from the Latest IRS Victory in Deathbed Family Limited Partnership Planning – Estate of Anne Milner Fields

by Kimberley R. Moore In September 2024, the Tax Court ruled that the full date-of-death value of assets transferred into a family limited partnership (“FLP”)...

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December 2, 2024

Final IRS Regulations Clarify SECURE Act Rules for Required Minimum Distributions from Inherited Retirement Plans

by Amy L. Lawrence On July 18, 2024, the IRS issued final regulations (the Final Regulations) impacting the treatment of inherited retirement accounts and updating the...

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December 2, 2024

IRS Announces Larger Gift, Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Exemptions for 2025

With the release of Revenue Procedure 2024-40, the IRS announced annual inflation adjustments to over 60 tax provisions, including adjustments relevant to estate planning. The...

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July 1, 2024

Supreme Court Decision Changes Estate Tax Impact of Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Policies

by Amy L. Lawrence Closely-held businesses may want to reconsider business succession planning after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Connelly v. United States,...

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July 1, 2024

Intrafamily Transactions: When Lifetime Transfers Intended as Loans Are Treated as Gifts

by Corinne L. Adams In a recent case, Estate of Mary Bolles, T.C. Memo 2020-71, affirmed, Docket No. 22-70192 (9th Cir, 2024), the Ninth Circuit...

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July 1, 2024

New FDIC Rules Affecting Insurance Limits on Trust Account Deposits

by Corinne L. Adams The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) recently adopted changes to the deposit insurance rules for revocable and irrevocable trust accounts which...

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April 2, 2024

Don’t Wait to Donate: Avoiding Capital Gain on Gifts of Appreciated Property to Charity

by Amy L. Lawrence In a recent case, Estate of Scott M. Hoensheid, et al. v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo 2023-34), the Tax Court provided critical...

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April 2, 2024

A Federal District Court Declares the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional

by Corinne L. Adams Case Summary The plaintiffs, National Small Business United (dba National Small Business Association “NSBA”), and Isaac Winkles, an NSBA member, filed...

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April 2, 2024

Haggerty v. Thornton: Be Sure to Include Modification Procedures in Your Trust Planning

By Behrouz S. Arani In the recent California Supreme Court case of Haggerty v. Thornton, the California Supreme Court upheld the findings of the San...

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December 4, 2023

Insight on Estate Planning, Year End 2023

Weinstock Manion is pleased to present the Year End 2023 issue of Insight on Estate Planning, our bi-monthly newsletter. We encourage you to read it...

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November 29, 2023

The Corporate Transparency Act & Entity Reporting Requirements: What You Need To Know

The Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2024, was enacted by Congress as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act...

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August 1, 2023

Insight on Estate Planning, August/September 2023

Weinstock Manion is pleased to present the August/September 2023 issue of Insight on Estate Planning, our bi-monthly newsletter. We encourage you to read it for...

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