by Randy Coleman | May 3, 2013 | Annuities, Asset Protection, Charitable Lead Trusts, Charitable Planning, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Income Taxes, Individual Retirement Accounts, IRAs, Life Insurance Protection, Retirement Accounts, Retirement Planning, ROTH IRAs |
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (which became law on January 2, 2013) made permanent the temporary estate/gift/generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions established in December 2010, increased the rate on non-exempt estates/gifts/generation-skipping...
by Randy Coleman | Apr 16, 2013 | Asset Protection, Beneficiary Designations, Charitable Planning, Durable Power of Attorney, Estate Planning, Health Care Power of Attorney, Individual Retirement Accounts, Probate, Retirement Planning, Revocable Living Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, Titling of Assets, Wills and Probate |
Did you know that April is National Financial Literacy Month? This is the perfect time to sit down with your loved ones to discuss your financial and estate planning objectives. To help you move the discussion forward, we would like to suggest three action...
by Randy Coleman | Apr 4, 2013 | Elder Law, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Probate, Probate Litigation, Trust Litigation, Will Contests, Wills and Probate |
Today’s New York Times contains an article about the death of “Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Maid Who Married Multimillionaire, Dies at 76.”Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a Polish immigrant who came to America to work as a maid, first worked for J. Seward...
by Randy Coleman | Mar 13, 2013 | Asset Protection, Beneficiary Designations, Estate Planning, Income Taxes, Individual Retirement Accounts, IRAs, Irrevocable Trusts, Retirement Accounts, Retirement Planning, Revocable Living Trusts |
Many people have large IRAs and retirement plan accounts and need special estate planning for these assets. A 2009 study by the Investment Company Institute found that retirement plans account for 34% of all household financial assets, up from 14% in 1978; IRAs alone...
by Randy Coleman | Feb 11, 2013 | Beneficiary Designations, Estate Planning, IRAs, Titling of Assets, Wills and Probate |
For the last two months, we have been singularly focused on helping people get their end of the year planning in place and moving our office to a new location. The year end for 2012 was more busy than usual because of all of the uncertainty surrounding the tax...
by Randy Coleman | Jan 20, 2013 | Charitable Planning, Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Gift Tax, Income Taxes, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Retirement Planning |
Here’s Our Take On What the New Tax Law Means to You The law passed at New Years to deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff” included revisions to estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) tax laws and income tax laws that will affect...
by Randy Coleman | Nov 4, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Business Succession Planning, Estate Planning, estate tax, Estate Taxes, Exemption Planning, Family Business, Gift Tax, Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Irrevocable Trusts, Premarital Agreements, Revocable Living Trusts, Small Business Law, Trustee, Wills and Probate |
We have discussed the 2012 tax-saving opportunity quite a bit here lately. You can read previous posts here and here. This article continues our conversation by providing our clients and readers a number of factors to consider when deciding whether to gift or not to...
by Randy Coleman | Sep 24, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Estate Planning, Family Business, Income Taxes, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Medicare, Small Business Law |
If you are like me, you remember exactly where you were the moment you found out that Obamacare had been upheld by the Supreme Court. No matter your party or political persuasion, and regardless of whether you...
by Randy Coleman | Sep 24, 2012 | Asset Protection, Business Owners, Crazy Lawsuits, Physicians and Asset Protection |
We’ve talked quite a bit about asset protection lately: Why Floridians Need Asset Protection Planning; September’s Crazy Lawsuits; Asset Protection for Physicians – Discussion and Dinner. It seems that no matter how much asset protection...
by Randy Coleman | Sep 21, 2012 | Asset Protection, Crazy Lawsuits |
This month brings news of another group of ridiculous lawsuits, and coming on the heals of Florida’s ranking among the ten worst states for lawsuits, provides more fresh evidence of the need for asset protection planning. Take a look at these...
