This past year has been confusing. Most of us worked from home, and many of us had our incomes change due to the shelter-in-place orders. Restaurants closed, some temporarily and some permanently. Entertainment venues shuttered. Schools switched to remote learning. But how did these changes...
There are a few ways in which Ohio is different from neighboring states with regards to divorce. Some states are either no-fault or fault-based. In a no-fault state like Indiana, Kentucky, California, or Florida, a person wanting a divorce is not able to declare grounds...
In a March column for NJ.com, a New Jersey-based estate planning attorney named Andrew Novick addresses a question from a potential client. The client asks, “How can we avoid probate and reduce the estate tax for our beneficiaries, who are our two adult children?” Novick...
Particularly for younger people, it is easy to feel invincible. Health problems may seem far away, a distant inconvenience to address in future years. During the pandemic, however, many people are feeling the urge to complete end-of-life-related paperwork, just in case. The prospect of falling...
If you work out a dispute in court, it can take ages. Our courts are overcrowded, and their case loads are backed up. The use of civil litigation is an expensive and inefficient way to settle a dispute. The smarter move, if you and the...
As any criminal defense attorney will be quick to tell you, there is never a statute of limitations for a murder case. Unlike other type of crime, a murder case can be tried many decades later. A recent example of this is in the recent...
In October of 2020, federal prosecutors charged a man from Houston, Texas with a largest tax fraud case in United States history. According to the charges, Robert T. Brockman has concealed more than $2 billion – that is $2,000,000,000 – in income from the Internal...
Justin Fox wrote in February 2021 for Bloomberg about recent data he obtained concerning the year 2018 in federal taxes. This data refers specifically to the Alternative Minimum Tax, and changes that the Trump administration made to the Alternative Minimum Tax. These tax cuts were...
Your divorce may be expensive. Chances are, though, that it will not be as pricey as these four particular splits. They are among the heftiest divorce settlements in U.S. history. Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey – $150 million Diamond was quoted as saying “She deserves...
In a recent column for Forbes.com, Christine Fletcher opined about estate taxes and estate planning. The thrust of her article was based on rampant speculation that the Biden-Harris White House might move to implement new tax reform policies. We saw the effects of this speculation...
