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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...
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...
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...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Aug 26, 2013 | Trusts
Charitable giving is an important activity for millions of Americans. And for many people, this includes not only gifts while living. It also includes setting up charitable trusts or using other ways to give money or other assets to charity after death. Members of the...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Aug 20, 2013 | Trusts
Trusts are very flexible instruments. There are many different types of trusts and they can be used for many different purposes. And so the flexibility they provide is one of the recurring themes of this blog. One of the latest ways in which this flexibility is...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Aug 12, 2013 | Estate Taxes
It sounds like a bad estate planning dream. Is it really possible that the IRS would try to collect estate tax from a beneficiary more than a decade after the death of a parent who was trying to pass his estate along to his children? The answer, unfortunately, is yes....
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Jul 31, 2013 | Trusts
It isn't easy being a parent. Even if all goes well, taking care of a child requires a major commitment of time, energy and money. But what happens when a child has special needs? When that is the case, parents need creative strategies to make sure that a child...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Jul 26, 2013 | Wills
Imagine you are one of two siblings, and your mother is nearing the end of her life. For a good portion of your life, you and your mother did not get along -- in fact, you barely spoke. But as time passed, you two realized that putting your differences aside was best...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Jul 15, 2013 | Trusts
Trusts are creative instruments designed to respond intelligently to specific situtations. They've been around in various forms for hundreds of years. But the effectiveness of particular types of trusts varies over time. A current example of this is the qualified...
On Behalf of Cushing & Dolan, P.C. | Jul 8, 2013 | Powers Of Attorney
It isn't easy for a child to watch a parent getting old. For many families, a tipping point can come when the roles get reversed: parents, who once provided the care, are now in need of it themselves. Of course, the type of care arrangement required varies from family...
