Recently, I read a newspaper article reporting that Bing Crosby’s estate is selling an equal stake in the rights to Bing Crosby’s catalog to Primary Wave Music for an estimated $50 million dollars, making Primary Wave Music and the estate
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I. Tax changes, the latest developments.
The Trusts and Estates community is awash with rumors of the tax changes being proposed in Washington. Every day, the inbox is filled with rumors, invitations to webinars on planning opportunities, and the “dire”
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Many people have been following the developments in the conservatorship of Britney Spears. It is hard not to since the matter has been in the headlines so often of late. Ms. Spears alleged gross financial and personal abuse by her
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Pity the poor estate planners. They are like zookeepers managing an ever increasing menagerie of exotic beasts, creatures of the tax code and regulations designed to take maximum, albeit legitimate, advantage of the complexities increasingly built into the system. For
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While the producers of the television show Jeopardy are trying to find a replacement to the late Alex Trebek (your writer is old enough to remember the original host Art Fleming), a popular category of the game show provides the
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Dorothy Parker is known for having been a prolific writer and poet. She was born in 1893 and died in 1967. She is famous for her satirical style and biting wit. She was a member of the legendary Algonquin Round
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Daniel Craig is a prominent actor, one of the most recent incarnations of the James Bond franchise. Mr. Craig made headlines recently with his announcement that he finds that “inheritance is distasteful.” He plans to give little if anything to
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Last week we introduced the story of a battle over a portion of the Walt Disney fortune. His grandson is challenging the sale of a ranch in Wyoming by the trustees of a family trust. The article reporting the story
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Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was a feature (albeit not in color) of my Sunday evenings as a boy (although not as much as Wild Kingdom and Bonanza). This blog entry concerns the Disney fortune and the problems that
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Most of us know the name “Britney Spears” from her long show business career, which began when she was a child. By the time she was twelve years old, she starred in The Mickey Mouse Club. She later catapulted to
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