Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law Attorneys

»  Easing Your AMT Pain
An increasing number of middle-income taxpayers are finding themselves paying AMT. Here are some tips for reducing the tax.

»  A Little Too Little
U.S. stimulus package is more election-year posturing than economic invigoration.

» Nabokov's Laura and the Disobedient Executor

I've talked before -- most recently, here -- about executors who don't obey the wishes of decedents, and refuse to burn their works. Vladimir Nabokov's case (which involves this scenario) has been in the news lately, in a two-part series in Slate entitled The Fate of Nabokov's Laura:

Part 1

Part 2

» Damon Dash Owes $2 Million In Tax, On The Run
Let EbenGregory tell it, the tax collector must love poor people - he’s creating so many of them. In another non- hate filled episode of THE JEWELRY REPORT, Dame Dash goes on the run from the tax man . Related PostsSuge Knight Owes $6 Million in U.S. TaxesPoor old Suge.  In jail for next next nine [...]

»  Trade In Your Social Security Check
Here's a ploy that lets seniors raise their long-term standards of living by paying the Social Security Administration tens of thousands of dollars.