Estate & Tax Planning
2024 Tax Year Estate Planning Related Tax Exemption Figures as Adjusted for Inflation
While high inflation is generally bad for the economy, the upside is that various tax figures adjust upwards for inflation on an annual (or other) ...
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Q&A with Loraine: Can I Create a Will Myself Using AI?
Question: I need to put together a basic, straightforward Will. Is there any reason I couldn’t use ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) instead of hiring ...
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Q&A with Loraine: Is a child who takes care of aging parents entitled to their house?
Question: I lived with and took care of my parents for 16 years. My brother and sisters did nothing to help me. Both of my ...
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Don’t Forget This Important Step After Transferring Your Primary Residence to Your Revocable Living Trust!
Georgia has a new probate law going into effect on July 1, 2023 that imposes new and additional requirements on appointed Executors. The new statute, ...
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Q&A with Loraine: Should I add my adult disabled daughter to my house title?
Question: I am 77, and my daughter is 46 and disabled. Should I add her to the title on my house so that it won’t ...
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Q&A with Loraine: Is it better to name my kids as beneficiaries on my savings and investment accounts, or should I have my accounts go to my estate?
Question: Is it better to have my savings and investments go directly to my beneficiaries when I die, or should I have them go to ...
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A 2014 Handwritten Will of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, Declared Valid by Jury
The estate of Aretha Franklin became the center of a family dispute after the “Queen of Soul” died in her Michigan home on August 14, ...
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Q&A with Loraine: My father has five children between my stepsiblings and me. How will his house be split?
Question: My father passed away in October. His wife died about eight years ago. I’m the oldest child from his first marriage, and he has ...
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