One of your worries as a parent is what will happen to your children if you cannot care for them. While the common law has the answer if you fail to plan or make your wishes known, custodial care and judicial appointment of a guardian for your children and your...
A friend or relative makes a bequest to a disabled person in their will, hoping to make his life easier, but without proper legal advice that gift may have to be rejected by the recipient to avoid financial loss. A simple modification of the donor’s will could...
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 enacted on December 31, 2012 was publicized as reducing income tax rates for all but the most wealthy Americans, but surprisingly the main provisions of the federal estate tax survived intact. As of January 1, 2013, the federal...