Wills & Estate Planning August 2012 Archive

Beginning on January 1, 2013, certain taxpayers will be subject to a new 3.8% surtax that will help support the expanding costs of Medicare under provisions of The Patient Protection ... Read More

Attorneys for Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, want to know all of the intimate details and see the backup documentation which support the latest accounting and status report filed by ... Read More

The IRS has released a draft of the 2012 version of Form 706: United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return Estate of a citizen or resident of the ... Read More

The drama surrounding Michael Jackson's estate just won't end. The latest news in the saga is that Katherine Jackson won't speak to children Rebbie, Randy and Janet because she ... Read More

Over a year after intoxicated MTV "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn killed himself and his passenger, Zachary Hartwell, in a car crash in Pennsylvania, Hartwell's parents, as executors of his estate, ... Read More

On August 6 the last will and testament of 47-year old Adam "MCA" Yauch, one of the co-founders of the pioneer hip hop band Beastie Boys who died from cancer ... Read More

Once again a mixed bag of topics - ranging from California and Pennsylvania death taxes, to MJ, to DOMA, to nuns acting badly - topped the most read blogs posted ... Read More

Last week I received a call from a potential client who had read one of my articles about revocable trusts and wanted to meet with me to find out if ... Read More

Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of two of Michael Jackson's children, Prince and Paris, has signed off on the co-guardianship arrangement entered into by Michael's mother, Katherine Jackson, and nephew, ... Read More

Washington, D.C. is one of a handful of jurisdictions that still collect an estate tax or an inheritance tax at the local level, and boy has it is paid off ... Read More

Over the past few weeks the federal estate tax has become a sticking point for members of Congress. While the Democrat-controlled Senate voted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts ... Read More

As expected, last Thursday Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff reinstated Katherine Jackson as the guardian of Michael Jackson's children, Prince, Paris and Blanket. Katherine will serve as ... Read More

Initiative Petition 15, which would phase out Oregon's estate tax by 2016, has garnered enough signatures to qualify for the November 6 ballot. The initiative would reduce the state-imposed ... Read More