Monthly Archives: December 2025
Can A Trust Make Your Estate Plan More Complicated?
The content pages about trusts on the websites of estate planning law firms make it sound like a trust is a magical solution to all your estate planning worries. They give the impression that a trust makes your property invisible to creditors and just accessible enough, but not too accessible, to the intended beneficiaries…. Read More »
The Equivocal Estate Plan
You have probably heard that, when it comes to estate planning, you can never put too much thought into the details. The more meticulously your medical advance directive describes the treatments you do and do not want, and the more carefully your will describes each item of property that it leaves to each family… Read More »
The Annual Gift Tax Exclusion Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
In the lead up to the holidays, children are occupied with thoughts of gifts that they want to find under the Christmas tree. They will work the subject into every conversation, describing their gifts in great detail, no matter how implausible it is that they will receive them. Perhaps your grandson wants a pickaxe… Read More »
Is Florida A Tax-Free Paradise For Retirees?
There are plenty of things to fear in Florida. The Sunshine State has the largest alligator population in the U.S. It is also home to our nation’s only native population of crocodiles; the range of the American crocodile extends to the southernmost parts of Florida. Even if you are prudent enough to avoid crocodilians… Read More »
