A pair of legal malpractice lawsuits brought against a Charlotte law firm as part of an estate planning dispute will move forward after a unanimous panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the firm was unable ...

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    For estate planning attorneys, 2020 was a year unlike any they have ever seen, from meeting clients in parking lots to comforting desperate family members whose elderly parents have succumbed to the virus and didn’t have plans for ...

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  Estate planning in a digital era encompasses more than just the material things a client possesses. These days, attorneys must consider their client’s digital existence as well as their temporal one, and estate planners and executors need to think ...

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Rutledge v. Feher (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-272-17, 12 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from Jackson County Superior Court (Alan Thornburg, J.) N.C. App. Holding: In their deed, C.E. and Margarete Viele plainly stated their desire that “upon the death of ...

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A Surry County Superior Court has rejected a challenge to the last will and testament representing a $1 million estate led by a man who claimed his deceased brother was incapable of making the will. The court granted summary judgment ...

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BALTIMORE, MD – Estate-planning attorneys have taken on increased importance with the rise in blended families over the past generation. Forty percent of marriages are remarriages and, since 1980, the number of people who have married multiple times has nearly ...

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Shuffling off this mortal coil has grown more complicated now that life is tangled up in the wires of the digital age. Millions of us live whole facets of our lives in the virtual world, facets that will be left ...

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With all the talk of a zombie apocalypse this year – who could forget the crazed, naked, face-eating zombie in Miami? – it was only a matter of time before a lawyer began identifying the tax loopholes and pitfalls that await the undead.

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The new tax law, which contains changes to estate, gift and income tax rules, should keep estate planning attorneys busy advising clients on retirement planning for at least the next two years. The changes packed in the tax law signed by President Barack Obama late last year present lawyers with an opportunity to reach out to clients to review their estate plans.

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By BARBARA L. JONES, Dolan Media Newswires [email protected]   Nothing is certain but death and taxes – but right now, estate taxes are anything but certain. The Tax Relief Act of 2010, signed into law on Dec. 17, 2010, increased ...

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