by Leslie Marenco | Sep 5, 2014 | Articles, Business/ Corporate Law, IRS
The IRS and State Governments have both stepped up their enforcement action against business owners who mis-classify employees as independent contractors. One friend of ours was just fined $150,000 for Worker’s Comp Fraud stemming from a mis-classification of...
by Leslie Marenco | Sep 5, 2014 | Articles, Trusts, Uncategorized
You bring your children into the world with love. You raise them with love. If you’re going all the way as a parent, you also create an estate plan to safely pass on your legacy of love as well as your assets. But does your plan simply leave your assets outright, so...
by Leslie Marenco | Sep 4, 2014 | Articles, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning
After nearly 20 years of litigation and fighting in the press, the conflict between the estates of Anna Nicole Smith and her billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall has been “resolved.” MAYBE. POSSIBLY. PROBABLY NOT. It’s like a bad soap opera that refuses to end. An...
by Leslie Marenco | Sep 3, 2014 | Articles, Case Law, Estate Planning
I, like most estate-planning attorneys come across clients who want to attach all sorts of conditions on gifts they make to descendants and other beneficiaries. And most estate-planning lawyers know that conditions creating restraints against marriage, religion and...
by Leslie Marenco | Sep 3, 2014 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Inheritance, Special Needs Planning, Trusts
When families come in to do planning with me, we discuss at length how they want their children (or other beneficiaries) to inherit their wealth. In fact, whether they want their wealth inherited 1) outright, or in 2) Lifetime Asset Protection Trusts, is one of the...
