The year 2024 brings new changes to estate and gift tax laws in the United States, with updated exemptions, rates and regulations affecting taxpayers at both federal and state levels. As we settle into the new year, it is important to stay informed about the latest updates and requirements to ensure proper planning and compliance.
Ready to kick off the New Year and make good on all those estate planning resolutions? On this first episode of 2024, Partners Erin Nicholls and Michael Clear highlight the estate planning opportunities resulting from changes in estate, gift and generation-skipping tax exemptions and discuss why 2024 is a good year to consider making big
A personal residence can be an ideal asset to gift to a properly designed trust for your descendants or other beneficiaries.
The basic concept is deceptively simple: Parent establishes an irrevocable trust for the benefit of children, thereby locking in use of Parent’s lifetime gift exemption as a hedge against a reduction in the exemption
A Qualified Personal Residence Trust (“QPRT”) is a special kind of irrevocable trust that can be used to transfer your residence to your children at a significantly reduced gift tax cost.
How This Technique Works. During your lifetime, you transfer your residence to a trust and retain the right to continue to live in
Following up on a prior advisory that we published on “Estate Tax Planning and the Often-Overlooked Power of the ‘Med-Ed Exclusion’” (click here to read), we offer this update and a deeper dive into the gift of medical care that may have meaningful implications on estate planning strategies for many individuals.
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As the new year approaches, we present our annual year-end advisory for 2023. This edition highlights noteworthy estate and gift tax changes in the law and outlines planning opportunities that can be utilized before the end of the year. We also take a moment to recognize some of our accomplishments in 2023 and provide our
Modern families are complex and can consist of unmarried couples, married same-sex couples or couples in second marriages. These families may encounter unique estate planning challenges and may not always enjoy the same legal advantages, spousal rights, and tax benefits as others. For instance, couples who do not take the formal step of marriage under
Ownership of real property in multiple states can raise many estate planning issues. How the property is titled (i.e., whether the property is owned directly or through an entity, such as a trust or a limited liability company, may have a dramatic impact on the settlement of your estate and the taxes due. Fortunately, there
A special kind of irrevocable trust, known as a qualified personal residence trust (or QPRT), may enable you to transfer your residence to your children (or others) at a significantly reduced value for tax purposes, yet allow you to continue to live in the residence for as long as you wish.
Setting Up a QPRT
The family beach house, ski condo, lake cottage, or other vacation property is often cherished for the lifelong memories created and the traditions upheld. Understandably, many people want to keep these properties in the family for generations to come, with the intent of creating meaningful family traditions and history, strengthening family ties, and preserving a parent’s