The Internal Revenue Service has announced that the two-year period for filing an estate tax return merely to elect portability has been extended to five years from date of death. Rev. Proc. 2022-32, 2022-30 IRB 101 (7/25/2022). In Rev. Proc. … Continue reading
Daniel Evans
Section 15.1 of the Act of July 8, 2022, No. 53 (HB 1342), adds a new subsection 2111(u) to the inheritance and Estate Tax Act (72. P.S. §9111(u)) that exempts from inheritance tax the transfer of personal property resulting from … Continue reading
Absent fraud or duress, a spousal election against a will (or an election to take under the will) becomes irrevocable at the end of the six month period allowed by 20 Pa.C.S. § 2210(b) and may not be revoked merely … Continue reading
Bucks County has adopted a new Rule 4.7A for electronic filing in the Orphans’ Court. ”Order Approving Electronic Filing in the Office of the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court and Promulgating Rule of Orphans’ Court Procedure 4.7A; Administrative Order No. … Continue reading
A direction in a will that a beneficiary should have the right to receive the decedent’s residence as part of her one third share of the estate or purchase the house at fair market value did not give the beneficiary … Continue reading
An agent’s deposit of a refund check payable to the principal into a bank account in the joint names of the principal and agent was an act of self-dealing and a breach of fiduciary duty by the agent because she … Continue reading
A right of first refusal granted to daughter and her husband by her father’s will was exercisable by daughter alone after her divorce from her husband when an offer to purchase the property was received by the executors more than … Continue reading
The Superior Court has followed the plurality opinion in In re Estate of McAleer, 248 A.3d 416 (Pa. 2021), and held that the “fiduciary exception” to the attorney-client privilege and attorney work product doctrine is not contrary to the law … Continue reading
Decedent gave instructions to attorney for the preparation of a will, but she died in the hospital without signing the will because COVID-19 protocols prevented her attorney or others from delivering the will to her for her signature, and so … Continue reading
Value of rings determined by purchase prices from four years before, rather than an appraiser by a jeweler who did not actually examine the rings and misstated the size of the diamond in one of the rings. Compensation of the … Continue reading