The Paley Rothman Blog
Paley Rothman shares this library of resources with clients and friends of the firm to help them stay ahead of legal and business developments and trends. Here, you will find helpful tips and tools written by our attorneys. The information in the blogs and articles is not a substitute for legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Should you have any questions or want legal advice, please contact the attorney who wrote the blog or article.
February 24, 2011
A Power of Attorney (“POA”) is a document by which you (the “Principal”) give some other person (your “Agent”) the authority to do various things on your behalf. A POA can be a helpful document to have. There are several types; some POAs become effective at a date subsequent to the date it is executed and others are effective only for a specified period of time and/or only for certain specific purposes.
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January 17, 2011
By
Jeffrey Kolender on January 17, 2011
In December 2010, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act became law. It keeps the 2010 income tax rates in place for 2011 and 2012 and maintains many of the other so-called “Bush tax cuts.” The new legislation also makes several important (and surprising) changes to the federal estate tax laws. Unfortunately, most of the provisions of the new law expire after 2012 and those favorable changes will remain in place only if future legislation is passed.
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July 26, 2010
By
Paula Calimafde on July 26, 2010
The federal estate tax system is in a state of chaos. Despite some discussion among lawmakers in the past year, there has been no progress or change to report. The outlook for a good resolution is somewhere between bleak (some believe the best possible result will be having the 2009 estate tax law reinstated for two years only) to murky (a compromise may be in the works which will provide a permanent solution) More details on these and other possible outcomes below.
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May 6, 2010
By
Jeffrey Kolender on May 6, 2010
As most people know by now, the federal estate tax was repealed as of January 1, 2010. This actually was part of the much acclaimed “death tax” repeal enacted in 2001, but most tax experts never thought the repeal would make its way into law. They said the deficit is too great, the budget has to be balanced, tax revenues are needed to pay for TARP, etc. Congress had tried on several occasions to pass some sort of compromise bill, yet it never happened. What a surprise; politics got in the way of effective governing. Yet that’s a topic for another day.
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August 10, 2009
By
Deborah Cohn on August 10, 2009
Several significant changes enacted this year by the Maryland legislature may affect your estate planning. Perhaps the most important development, however, is a non-change. Maryland did not increase its separate estate tax exemption. It is currently $1 million and remains much lower than the Federal exemption, which this year increased to $3.5 million.
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