Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Happy New Year. Or is it. I can’t help but come back to some old cliches like “be careful what you wish for”…
Welcome to Straight Talk Edition 2. Today I want to focus on Estate Taxes and Trusts. Back when President Bush was in office he enacted tax laws with a 10 year time window. Those ten years have passed and Congress extended the laws for 2 years. In the estate tax area, beginning January 1, 2013,…