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Revocable living trusts were often touted and marketed as valuable solely because of their ability to "avoid probate" and the costs and complications that surrounded it. Although probate avoidance is certainly a consideration in the use of a "living trust", there are many other estate planning techniques which also "avoid" probate.
A small estate can streamline the probate process by utilizing simplified probate procedures, which are available in many states for estates that fall below a certain threshold value.
Negative aspects of using a living trust as opposed to a will and probate include upfront legal expenses, the expense of trust administration, and a lack of certain safeguards. The cost of the trust may be 1% of the estate per year versus the one-time probate cost of 1 to 4% for probate, which applies whether or not there is a drafted will ...
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the state where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
First Potomac Realty Trust Announces Tax Reporting Information for 2012 Common and Preferred Share Distributions BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- First Potomac Realty Trust (NYS: FPO) , a leading ...
Statements of Position, which provides guidance on financial reporting topics until the FASB or GASB sets standards on the issue. Practice Bulletins, which indicate the AcSEC's views on narrow financial reporting issues not considered by the FASB or the GASB. In 1984, the FASB created the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). The mission of the ...
According to the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the applicable exclusion increased to $3,500,000 in 2009, and the estate tax was repealed for estates of decedents dying in 2010, but then the Act was to "sunset" in 2011 and the estate tax was to reappear with an applicable exclusion amount of only $1,000,000.
Based on the statements and interviews that have been made public so far, the news of Luigi Mangione’s arrest seems to have come as a shock to those who knew him.