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How To Ruin Your Estate Plan By Signing A Stupid “Standard” Form

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com Revocable trusts are about as common to estate planning as peanuts at a ballgame. These are contractual agreements between you (called the Settlor or Grantor) and […]

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Estate Planning New Year’s Resolutions By An Estate Planner

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com So, we estate planners have perfect estate and financial plans and nary a worry. Not! Most professionals are like the proverbial shoemaker with the barefoot children. […]

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Trusts, Buy-Sells, Prenups: A Rubik’s Cube Of Traps And Worries

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com Your estate planning, including business buy-sell arrangements, trusts, prenups, are all intertwined, and all affected by the 2017 Tax Act, often in surprising and odd ways. […]

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Can You Cut Income And Estate Taxes With A Trust Called An ING?

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com Adviser phones are r-ING-ing off the hook with questions about INGs. Taxpayers seem to love the hot item of the day. Now, I love a good ING as […]

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Charity In The New Estate Tax Environment: How To Save Tax Deductions

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com The 2017 Tax Act doubled the estate tax exemption and basically eliminated the tax benefits for charitable bequests for most donors. But creative planning can both […]

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Charitable Giving: How To Save Tax Deductions Despite New Law

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com New Tax Law: New Charitable Planning The Tax Cut Jobs Act of 2017 changed the landscape for charitable giving. While charitable giving has never only been motivated […]

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Powerful Strategies For Charitable Giving After Tax Reform

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com New World of Charitable Planning The non-tax benefits of charitable giving should be, and often are, important to motivating and planning donations. Most donors, other than […]

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Four Workarounds to SALT Deduction Limits in Light of IRS Proposed Regulations

December 27th, 2018

Martin Shenkman Contributor Forbes.com IRS regulation restricts contributions in lieu of state tax payment to avoid SALT restrictions, but options remain daring taxpayers living in high tax states that have […]

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Video: Trust Planning in the Current Environment-Part 2

December 21st, 2018

 Speakers: Jonathan Blattmachr, Esq. and Martin M. Shenkman, Esq. -How has trust and related planning changed in the current planning environment? -When and how should grantor or non-grantor trusts be […]

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Video: Trust Planning in the Current Environment-Part 1

December 21st, 2018

 Speakers: Jonathan Blattmachr, Esq. and Martin M. Shenkman, Esq. -How has trust and related planning changed in the current planning environment? -When and how should grantor or non-grantor trusts be […]

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