Trusts & Estates Articles

By Jeffrey A. Galant Common sense suggests that business owners, among their numerous tasks, should seek to minimize income taxes as they would any other expense, ...

Avi Z. Kestenbaum, Co-Chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Trusts & Estates practice group was quoted in The Wall Street Journal in an article titled “Tim Walz’s and JD ...

By Jeffrey A. Galant A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door – Confucius It is generally a good idea ...

By Jeffrey A. Galant There are orphanages … for children who have lost their parents – oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge ...

Avi Z. Kestenbaum, Co-Chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Trusts & Estates practice group was featured in WealthManagement.com in an article titled “Can O.J. Simpson’s Executor Stiff-Arm ...

By Jeffrey A. Galant The tools of intelligence (and counterintelligence) gathering, e.g., espionage, spying and the like, have been utilized since time immemorial by states, sovereign ...

Avi Z. Kestenbaum, Co-Chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Trusts & Estates practice group was featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy in an article titled “What Do ...

By Jeffrey A. Galant Well-settled in the tax law is the notion that the character of amounts received in the settlement of a claim turns ...

By Avi Z. Kestenbaum I think of the first client meeting as a blind date, where someone may have recommended that the two parties meet, ...

By Jeffrey A. Galant In the annals of family business succession planning, this article discusses some clever, albeit flawed, attempts to transfer ownership interests in a ...