Sociologists have spilled considerable ink in recent years attempting to explain the prolonged transition to adulthood in American life in the second decade of the 21st century. The Great Recession, of course, made that transition more difficult for millions of young...
Month: September 2013
Protecting and passing along digital assets
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Sep 23, 2013 | Estate Administration & Probate
In the age of the Internet, estate planning increasingly includes decisions about digital data that would have been inconceivable a generation ago. To be sure, traditional questions about who should receive which property remain as important as ever. Someone...
Caregivers need to care for their own health and finances too
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Sep 16, 2013 | Powers Of Attorney
To a remarkable agree, this has become the Age of the Caregiver. With an aging population and the high cost of professional nursing care, the percentage of American adults who take care of someone with a significant health problem has gone up from 30 percent to almost...
Estate planning decisions must respond to tax law changes
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Sep 9, 2013 | Estate Taxes
Taw laws are constantly changing. It's a classic example of the old adage that "the only constant is change." In the field of estate planning, the estate tax has been an excellent example of this in recent years. Those changes have greatly affected the estate planning...
Same-sex marriage and tax planning: IRS rules on joint filing
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Sep 3, 2013 | Estate Taxes
Massachusetts is one of the states that ed the way on the recognition of same-sex marriage. Several more states have followed in the last couple of years. And now, for purposes of federal tax returns, the rest of the country has followed as well. The Treasury...
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