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The Legal Intelligencer

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: What Estate Planners Need to Discuss With Their Clients

The largest tax reform in over three decades has now been signed into law. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (act) became law on Dec. 22, 2017, and will have wide-ranging implications for many industries. This article will address some of the possible estate planning possibilities.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Fixing Broken Trusts With the Uniform Trust Act Tool Kit

Trusts can “go bad” for many reasons. Some may be unsuitable from the outset, perhaps being the product of a trust-mill or a generic form downloaded…
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The Legal Intelligencer

How to Redo Estate Plans and Save on Taxes Under New Tax Reforms

Recent changes to the federal estate tax system have turned traditional estate planning on its head. Now under the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, most traditional estate plans for a married couple are likely to increase taxes at death, instead of saving taxes. This means attorneys who want to keep their clients happy had better redo existing estate plans and shift the focus of estate planning services moving forward.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Protecting and Planning for Your Estate During a Divorce

Even happily married couples often neglect to estate plan. It may seem overwhelming, perhaps time-consuming, and it certainly isn't as appealing as planning a vacation or a retirement party or any of the myriad of more attractive items on their lists. For those in the process of a divorce it is even more distasteful.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Stream of Foreign Buyers Grows in South Florida But Slows in Miami-Dade

Foreign homebuyers in Miami-Dade represented about 51 percent of all buyers, less than in previous years, a study shows.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'May Litigate' Exception in Arb Clause Lets Trade Secrets Suit Move Forward

A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that a former tech employee accused of stealing trade secrets from his employer cannot force the company into arbitration based on a contract that says the parties "may litigate" certain disputes.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Statute of Limitation Begins to Run When Principal Under Surety Bond Abandons Construction Project

The five-year statute of limitations for actions against surety bonds in construction disputes has been the subject of a number of significant Florida appellate court rulings over the years.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

E-Discovery

In the Legal's E-Discovery supplement, read about possession, custody or control; preserving wearable data and how when it come to ethics and e-discovery, attorneys must stay current.
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The Legal Intelligencer

No Health Care Merger Too Small for the FTC to Take an Antitrust Look

In our November and December 2016 articles, we discussed the Federal Trade Commission's proclivity to challenge health care mergers, even when the purported anticompetitive effects of the relatively economically limited merger would be confined to a local geographic region.
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Delaware Business Court Insider

Plaintiff Who Obtains a Corporate Benefit May Not Target a Stockholder to Pay a Fee Award

In a recent decision, Judge Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed the question of whether a plaintiff who obtains a corporate benefit through litigation may target a particular stockholder to pay a common fund fee award.
4 minute read

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