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The proliferation of trust decanting statutes continues

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2013

Irrevocable trusts are now subject to varying degrees of amendment by court approved modifications, trust protector actions, private settlement

Federal tax consequences of trust modificationreformation: score one for the taxpayer

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 13 2013

When is a modification or reformation of an irrevocable trust given effect for Federal tax purposes? In each of two recent private letter rulings

Careful planning required to avoid New York’s estate tax

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 12 2013

Now that Congress has implemented a relatively large per person federal giftestate tax exemption (i.e., the per person federal giftestate tax

Estate planning documents of married clients should be reviewed

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 12 2013

Estate plans for married clients typically provide first for the surviving spouse, in a manner that avoids estate tax at the first spouse's death and

Federal tax consequences of trust modificationreformation: score one for the IRS

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2013

When is a modification or reformation of an irrevocable trust given effect for Federal tax purposes? In each of two recent private letter rulings

Required updates for entity-assigned EINs

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2013

On May 3, 2013, the IRS issued final regulations that will require all persons (including trusts and estates) with employer identification numbers

Deceased Spousal Unused Exclusion (“DSUE”)a planning opportunity

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2013

One of the helpful provisions recently added to federal estate tax law allows a surviving spouse to use any "leftover" or "unused" federal estate tax

U.S. v. Blake, E.D.N.Y, No. 12-cv-02577

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York abstained from jurisdiction in a claim by the government to collect estate taxes because

June interest rates for GRATs, sales to defective grantor trusts, intra-family loans and split interest charitable trusts

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2013

The June 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 1.2, which is a slight decrease from April's rate

Estate of Liftin v. U.S., 111 AFTR-2d 2013-1426 (Ct. Fed. Cl.)

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2013

The Court of Federal Claims held that an estate was not entitled to a refund of a late-filing penalty because the estate lacked reasonable cause for