A last-minute settlement deal means the widow of drowned hedge fund millionaire
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Trust and Estates Litigation In the News
Study Reveals Ultra-High-Net-Worth Family Businesses Are Not Implementing Succession Plans and Asset Protection Strategies
File this under business development for all you trusts-and-estates planners out there. …
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Bill Murray’s Pre-nup: Florida Adopts the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
Slate recently reported here on Bill Murray’s brewing divorce. From a practitioner’s…
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Heath Ledger’s Estate: Why Daughter Matilda, Who Was Left Nothing in Her Father’s Will, Might Have a Claim to Everything
Law professors Joanna Grossman and Mitchell Gans, both of Hofstra University, published…
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Adults Worldwide Say “Tax the Rich!”
In 2006 I predicted the federal estate tax would ultimately NOT be repealed…
Ray Charles’ children battle over his legacy: Say trusts set up to handle the singer’s affairs have been mismanaged.
Michael A. Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times published an excellent article…
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Anticipating the Audit Call: Thinking About Controversy at the Planning Stage
John W. Porter and Stephanie Loomis-Price of Baker Botts LLP in Texas and…
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Hunt vs. Hunt: The Fight Inside Dallas’ Wealthiest Families
Texas probate litigator J. Michael Young reported here in his Texas Probate …
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The NY Times on Firing Corporate Trustees
Ohio trusts-and-estates attorney Michael D. Bonasera reported here in his The Ohio …
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Disbarred NY Lawyer Sentenced After Admitting to Stealing From Grandparents Trust Fund
Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reports in Disbarred Lawyer …
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