Seminars in California locales and elsewhere in the United States occasionally pop up to address centenarians and estate planning.We reference the impressive "100" number in today's post headline. In doing so, we implicitly acknowledge the number of ever growing...
Bay Area Estate And Tax Planning Law Firm
Month: January 2017
Tips to help avoid fighting over an estate
You've created a life for yourself, over the years you've purchased property, collected personal possessions and hopefully been able to save some money. But what happens to everything you've worked for once you're gone? Controversy can spark after a loved one passes...
Big winner in Prince’s estate outcome: the IRS
A commentator in a news article from earlier this week discussing the convoluted estate of pop legend Prince -- it's probably unobjectionable to anyone to simply call the Purple One's estate a mess -- notes that there are essentially three entities involved in many...
Spotlighting an integrated approach to estate planning
When it comes to effective estate planning, should the bottom line be predominantly focused on maximizing or minimizing?Many readers of our blog likely know that the answer to that query is going to be anything but absolute, given all the ifs, buts and maybes...
Do you trust the person who has your power of attorney?
A power of attorney is a legal document that authorizes someone to act on your behalf, and it's considered an essential tool of modern estate planning.The intention behind a POA is to give someone the ability to take over handling your affairs when you are unable to...
If you have offshore accounts, you might want to read this
Some California readers of our estate planning and litigation blog (with occasional entries addressing offshore-related accounts and taxpayer/IRS interactions) might reasonably conjure up the oft-referenced image of an ostrich with its head buried in the sand when...
Death of Afeni Shakur put rapper’s legacy at risk
When the legendary California rapper Tupac Shakur met his ultimate fate in a hail of bullets in 1996, his lucrative estate passed into the hands of his mother, Afeni Shakur. When Ms. Shakur passed away in California in May 2016, her death raised questions regarding...