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Client Alert
on November 7, 2024
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Newsletter
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)
on November 2024
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Newsletter
Estate, Gift and GST Tax Update
Gift Tax Update
New York Basic Exclusion Amount to Increase in 2025
Connecticut Estate Planning Update
Massachusetts Estate Planning Update
Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts (“SLATS”)
on November 2024
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Newsletter
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
on September 2024
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Awards and Recognition
on August 21, 2024
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Article
The estate and gift tax exemption is set to be cut in half at the end of 2025. Estate planners are seeing an uptick in client inquiries who are seeking to utilize their exemptions prior to the scheduled reduction. For many of these clients that know they should use their exemptions now but are not sure they can, the SLAT may be a good technique. This article provides an in depth analysis of SLAT planning.
“There is a real appetite for this knowledge as we get close to 2025’s crush. Our hope is to be out front of this with our referral sources, so that when 2025 is upon us their first thought it to reach out to Proskauer for help in SLAT planning.” Read article here.
From NAEPC Journal of Estate and Tax Planning
on July 2024
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Awards and Recognition
on July 24, 2024
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Newsletter
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
on June 2024
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Newsletter
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)
on May 2024
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Newsletter
January 2024 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts
REG-142338-07 – Proposed Regulations Related to Donor Advised Funds
Eileen Gonzalez et al v. Luis O. Chiong et al (Sep. 19, 2023)
IR-2023-185 (Oct 5, 2023)
New York Public Health Law amended to permit remote witnesses for health care proxies (Nov 17, 2023)
Small Business Succession Planning Act Introduced (Oct 12, 2023)
on January 2024
