by Trust Counsel | Feb 18, 2021 | Articles, Asset Protection, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Family, Guardianship, Kids Protection Planning
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their third pregnancy this past week; they are parents to nearly two-year-old Archie, and they lost a child to miscarriage this past summer. The famously private pair stepped down from official duties in the royal family...
by Trust Counsel | Feb 12, 2021 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Gift Tax, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Incapacity, Income Tax, Inheritance, Intellectual Property, IRAs / 401(k), IRS, Liens/Debt, Non - US Citizen, Non-Probate Asset
News icon Larry King recently passed away in the midst of his eighth divorce. We will remember his many memorable interviews and nearly as many trips to the altar. He brought the famous and influential into our homes for decades, and those interviews bridge eras and...
by Trust Counsel | Feb 11, 2021 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Family, Financial, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, Income Tax, Inheritance
This week’s pandemic guilty-pleasure television takes a more serious look at the butt of our collective joke: Britney Spears, her 2007 breakdown, and the decade-plus control her father has exercised over her life and finances thanks to a conservatorship proceeding....
by Trust Counsel | Feb 5, 2021 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business/ Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Gift Tax, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Inheritance, Intellectual Property, Kids Protection Planning, Liens/Debt, Trusts, Wills
Within the past year, a combination of new legislation and the recent change of leadership in the White House and Congress stands to dramatically increase the income taxes your loved ones will have to pay on inherited retirement accounts as well as increasing the...
by Trust Counsel | Feb 4, 2021 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Family, Financial, High Net Worth, Incapacity, Income Tax, Inheritance, Kids Protection Planning, Liens/Debt, Retirement, Wills
It may seem like a distant memory due to more recent events, a pandemic, and a presidential election, but it has only been ONE year since NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna (“Gigi”), tragically passed away in a helicopter crash in Calabasas,...
by Trust Counsel | Jan 29, 2021 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Financial, Gift Tax, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Intellectual Property, Liens/Debt, Probate, Probate Litigation, Trusts, Wills
If you own a business, you almost certainly have intellectual property. However, because your intellectual property is intangible, it can be invisible to you and those who aren’t familiar with the nature of intellectual property and its value, so it often gets...
