Posts Tagged ‘estate planning’
Should I Have A Will?
February 9th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Intestate or Testate A person who dies with a will is said to have died testate. A person who dies without a will dies intestate. In either case, the person who dies is called the decedent, and the property the person leaves at death is called the his or her estate. It is always preferable […]
The Estate Tax Is Back, but with Some Twists—and Opportunities
February 8th, 2014 by David Goldfarb
Reprinted with permission from Trusts & Estates Law Section Newsletter, Spring 2011, Vol. 44, No. 1, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207 After nine years of speculation about what would happen to the federal estate tax once its one-year “repeal” disappeared at the end of 2010, on […]
