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Estate taxes, also known as inheritance or death taxes, are taxes on an individual's right to transfer property at death.

Securing Your Legacy: Essential Estate and Succession Planning for Family Life Insurance Businesses

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 7/17/2025

Experienced trusts and estates attorneys consistently observe how proper planning can mean the difference between a thriving legacy and a fragmented enterprise. For family-owned life insurance businesses, the stakes are...more

Owners of Closely Held Businesses: Time to check your buy-sell agreement

Rivkin Radler LLP on 9/9/2024

Most closely held businesses, whether organized as a C or S corporation, LLC or partnership, have (or should have) a buy-sell agreement. A buy-sell agreement addresses what happens to an owner’s interest in the business when...more

Not Selling Despite Tax Increases? Review the Buy-Sell Agreement Among Owners

Rivkin Radler LLP on 11/29/2021

Not Selling Your Business This Year? Beginning shortly before the House Ways and Means Committee released its version of the President’s Build Back Better plan, several posts on this blog have explored the uptick in M&A...more

2016 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 11/22/2016

In 2016, we continued to experience a period of relative stability in our federal transfer tax system and have been able to plan without expecting imminent significant changes to the system. Under the American Taxpayer Relief...more

Maximizing The Value Of Your Business For Your Heirs

Troutman Pepper on 4/8/2013

One of the most difficult issues facing the owner of any successful business is how the business, or the personal wealth that it represents, can be preserved for the benefit of his or her family after death. While it is...more

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