by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 17, 2014 | Tax Planning
DISCLAIMER TRUST The disclaimer trust is a common form of planning, used as an alternative to funding a bypass trust with a marital deduction formula in order to utilize a decedent’s applicable exclusion amount. (Use of a formula generally makes sense only if...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 16, 2014 | Tax Planning
Annual exclusion gifts are often used to provide seed money for an estate freeze technique, or for payment of premium on a trust-owned life insurance policy, or to transfer fractional ownership in an asset (such as a limited partnership) in order to obtain valuation...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 16, 2014 | Business Succession, Creditors & Predators, Limitation of Liability
Set up your business with tax planning, estate planning, asset protection, and family protection in mind. In this economy, you need every competitive advantage, and your competitors are not standing still when it comes to tax planning. Estate planning and business...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 16, 2014 | Business Succession
Your business is most likely a major asset and source of income to you and your family. However, it is probably not properly protected from life events of the co-owners, due to lack of an exit strategy. Most business owners would be shocked to discover what happens to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 16, 2014 | Estate Planning
The term “estate plan” has been commoditized and cheapened to the point of referring merely to a set of documents designed very generally to avoid probate and perhaps minimize estate tax. For this we can blame high-volume trust mills operated by non-lawyers, usually...