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Estate Tax Constitutional Challenges Same-Sex Marriage

Estate taxes, also known as inheritance or death taxes, are taxes on an individual's right to transfer property at death.
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Obergefell in Question: Estate Planning Risks for Same-Sex Spouses

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On August 11, 2025, the United States Supreme Court was asked to reconsider Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that federally guaranteed marriage equality for all couples. This new case involves the four-times married...more

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Edith Windsor: Saying Farewell to a Brave Woman

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In law school, I wrote papers on the tax consequences of death and divorce for same-sex married couples. The conclusions I drew in those academic exercises included advising same-sex married couples to plan for tragedy well...more

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Wealth Management Update - September 2016

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September Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The September ยง 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs...more

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