As a further response to COVID-19, and in order to protect Internal Revenue Service employees, as well as taxpayers and their representatives, by minimizing the need for in-person contact, the IRS has added federal estate and gift tax returns, Forms … Continue reading
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The Supreme Court has adopted a new Pa.O.C. Rule 5.50 governing the form and contents of petitions to settle small estates in accordance with 20 Pa.C.S. § 3102, the new rule to be effective on October 1, 2020. A note has … Continue reading
The Internal Revenue Service has announced federal rates for the month of September under §§ 1274 and 7520 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) that will be the lowest rates since the IRS began publishing those rates in 1984. The … Continue reading
On August 7, the Centers for Decease Control and Prevention published mortality tables based on the 2010 census. “U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 2009-2011, United States Life Tables,” National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 69, No. 8 (8/7/2020). Table 1 of … Continue reading
The article “Low-Interest Estate Planning Strategies” described several estate planning strategies that should be considered now that interest rates have reached record lows. One of the strategies that is described in the article is an interest-only term note. A new … Continue reading
The Internal Revenue Service has published a new webpage “Reporting Excess Deductions on Termination of an Estate or Trust on Forms 1040, 1040-SR, and 1040-NR for Tax Year 2018 and Tax Year 2019.” These are instructions telling beneficiaries of estates … Continue reading
S.B. 320 was signed into law by Governor Wolf on July 23, 2020, becoming Act 72 of 2020. S.B. 320 enacts the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act as Chapter 39 of the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code, … Continue reading
The anti-alienation provisions that protect municipal pensions from attachment only apply while those funds are in the possession of the pension fund administrator, and so a post-nuptial agreement in which a spouse agreed to waive her rights to her husband’s … Continue reading
The decedent became disabled as an adult, and the decedent’s father owed him no legal duty of support, so the decedent was not a “dependent child” for the purpose of the forfeiture statute, 20 Pa.C.S. § 2106(b). In Re: The … Continue reading