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  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    November 2024 AFRs and 7520 Rate
     
    Inflation Adjustments for 2025 & Planning Considerations
     
    Delaware "Beneficiary Well-Being Trust"
     
    Practice Considerations – Implications for Estate Planning
     
    Estate of Williams: Omission of a Testator’s Other Known Children Demonstrated His Intent to Exclude All Preexisting Children, Known or Unknown
     
    Estate of Nowell v. Commissioner: Fractional Interest Discount Planning with QTIPS
     
    McDougall v. Commissioner: Termination of QTIP Trust Results in Gift Tax Liability to Remainder Beneficiaries
     
    Estate of Fields v. Commissioner: Inclusion of Transferred Assets under § 2036(a)

    November 2024

  • Blog

    Sixth Circuit Again Invalidates ERISA Plan Arbitration Clause

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation on October 30, 2024

  • Blog

    Massachusetts District Court Permits 403(b) Plan Fiduciary Breach Claims to Proceed

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation on September 11, 2024

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    September 2024 AFRs and 7520 Rate
     
    In the Matter of the Niki and Darren Irrevocable Trust and the N and D Delaware Irrevocable Trust, No. 2019-0302-SG (Del. Ch., July 24, 2024) – Delaware Court of Chancery Holds Trust Decanting Void Due to Noncompliance with Statutory Requirements
     
    Conn. Pub. Act No. 24-104 – Connecticut Uniform Trust Decanting Act
     
    Florida Bar Trust Law Committee – Legislative Proposal Re: Amendment to Decanting Statute
     
    Neal v. Lamb-Ferrara, 2024 Fla. App. LEXIS 4172 (Fla. Ct. App., 3d Dist., May 29, 2024) - Warning to Out of State Lawyers Who Advise Florida Residents on Trust/Estate Planning and Administration Matters
     
    ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 511R – Confidentiality Obligations of Lawyers Posting to Listservs
     
    Conley v. Conley (In re Conley Trust), No. 366180 (Mich. Ct. App., July 18, 2024) – Michigan Court Holds Beneficiaries Properly Issued K-1s in Connection with Transfer Made Pursuant to a Trust Settlement Agreement
     
    FedEx Corp. v. United States, W.D. Tenn., No. 2:20-cv-02794 – District Court Requests Supplemental Briefing on Impact of Loper Bright Doctrine in a Federal Tax Case; Taxpayer and Government Unsurprisingly Disagree
     
    IRS Promulgates Final Regulations and Additional Proposed Regulations with Respect to Required Minimum Distributions from Qualified Retirement Accounts

    September 2024

  • Blog

    The Never-Ending Fiduciary Rule Story Continues: Effective Date of DOL’s Newest Fiduciary Investment Advice Rule Delayed by Federal Court in Texas

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog on July 26, 2024

  • Blog

    District Court Dismisses Challenge to Use of Plan Forfeitures

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog on July 8, 2024

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    June 2024 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    U.S. Senate Targets Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts
     
    IRS Issues Notice 2024-35, Providing Relief for Taxpayers Who Failed to Take RMDs  
     
    The IRS Adopts New Reg. § 26.2642-7
     
    Finkbeiner, PLC v. Estate of Scott, No. 363756, 2024 BL 112514 (Mich. Ct. App. Mar 21, 2024)
     
    New Challenges to the CTA Argue Alternative Theories for the Law's Unconstitutionality
     
    U.S. House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan H.R. 6408, Suspending the Tax-Exempt Status of Terrorist Supporting Organizations

    June 2024

  • Blog

    Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of 401(k) Fees Claims

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation on May 8, 2024

  • Newsletter

    Wealth Management Update

    May 2024 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts
     
    Treasury Releases "Greenbook" for Fiscal Year 2025
     
    Aldridge v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, No. 13742-10 (U.S.T.C. Feb. 21, 2024)
     
    Proposed New Regulations for Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts
     
    Connelly v. United States (No. 23-146)

    May 2024

  • Blog

    Goodbye “Five-Part Test”—DOL Finalizes New Investment Advice Fiduciary Rules

    From Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation on April 24, 2024