This is the second post is a three-part series on estate planning for a married couple.
But Howard touched only briefly on the burden the new basis requirement imposes on estate executors.
The standard is 750 hours on real estate and more time on real estate than anything else.
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Shenkman, a highly regarded estate planner in New Jersey, is well-known because he has written more than 35 books and more than 700 articles on estate and financial planning.
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While clients in the West want to increase their wealth, they also are concerned with keeping what they have by sticking to conservative investments, and focusing on estate- and tax-planning strategies.
When the law that defines an estate agent is changed later this year, these private websites will be relieved of certain obligations placed on estate agents, like having to visit the property concerned.
No doubt this subject will consume considerable airtime later this month at the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the annual Super Bowl on the subject sponsored by University of Miami School of Law.
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One problem in deciding where to move based on estate tax--particularly for youngish retirees--is that this politically charged tax is in flux in many states, just as it is in the federal tax law.
Yet a report this week from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors painted a grim picture of falling house prices, lower inquiries from new buyers and rising stocks of property on estate agents' books.
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West attended a seminar on estate management.
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First they felt lucky there was no federal estate tax in 2010, but then they realized they had to deal with income taxes on estate asset appreciation, whereas that was not a concern with stepped-up basis with the estate tax regime.
He could go raise pineapples on his estate on the big island in Hawaii.
The judge in their case dismissed the Hannas' 89-page reconstruction of their real estate activities as an "impermissible ballpark guesstimate" that didn't prove Susan spent more hours on real estate than on computers.
It's a bit of a stretch, considering that these tax-favored vehicles generally own only real estate or loans on real estate.
Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, were killed in an alley on the Fishermead Estate on 26 May 2011.
Plans for a hotel and houses on the estate have been put on hold until a decision is made on a proposed wind farm off the coast of the links.
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Maybe you'd be better off just paying the tax, even though it will be a bit more than 15% on real estate (the tax rate is higher on the portion of your gain attributable to depreciation writeoffs).
With all this talk of keeping an even keel on the economy, mainly through keeping a lid on real estate inflation and sticking to their guns on further stimulus, China investors will face a complicated and uncertain 2013.
However, in this article, Madoff argues that Congress should give up on the estate tax, and instead should impose an income tax on inheritance.
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He won an Emmy for a special report on real estate in Chicagoland and various other awards for his reporting on the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Hurricane Katrina.
Really, rather than a real estate holder, think of the firm as a financing firm focused on real estate, which allows its clients to free up capital for other business uses.
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Taxes on real estate sales are way down and crime is up, forcing Oakland to spend more on overtime to keep cops on the street.
But perhaps the granddaddy of all real estate blogs, and certainly one of the best-known, is Curbed, which focuses on real estate in New York, a city whose inhabitants are perennially preoccupied with housing.
They were trying to protect firefighters when violence spiralled on the estate, sparked by the death of Cynthia Jarrett, 49, who collapsed during a police raid on her home.
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On Wednesday afternoon, a Catholic father of two, Gary Moore, was murdered as he worked on a building site on the mainly loyalist Monkstown estate on the outskirts of north Belfast.
Mr Deuchars said a grandchild could make a claim on their grandparent's estate on death if their own parent was already deceased, but the grandparent had no legal relationship in life.
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