Check Out Our New Article in Trusts and Estates Magazine - November 2020

Very proud of Benjamin N. Feder and Rebecca A. Levin for the great work they did on their article regarding No Contest Provisions. Check out the article HERE Read More
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Historically Low Interest Rates Provide Great Opportunity for Gift Planning and Estate Reduction Techniques

When transactions (either gifts or sales) between family members, or trusts for the benefit of family members, are entered into the government requires a minimum interest rate to avoid treating the interest component of the transaction as a gift (oft… Read More
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Estate Tax Repeal - The End of Estate Planning

There has been much discussion recently about potentially repealing the “death tax.” A bill introduced in the House on January 3, 2017 (H.R. 198) would repeal the gift, estate and GST (generation skipping transfer) taxes. A different bill introdu… Read More
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Newsletter Issue 7: What a Client Should Know in the Discovery Process of Litigation

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 7: What a Client Should Know in the Discovery Process of Litigation Read More
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Newsletter Issue 6: 2011 New Tax Law

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Newsletter Issue 4: Roth IRAs and the New 2010 Rules

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 4: Roth IRAs and the New 2010 Rules. January 2010 Read More
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Newsletter Issue 5: The Estate Tax: "I'll Be Back!"

“Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.” – Lord Bramwell Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 5: The Estate Tax: “I’ll Be Back!” by Michelle Gooze-Miller. January 2010 Read More
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Newsletter Issue 3: Illinois Expands Statute to Amend Trusts

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 3: Illinois Expands Statute to Amend Trusts. November… Read More
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Newsletter Issue 2: The Last GRAT

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.” – Bruce Barton Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 2: The Last GRAT. July 2009 Read More
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Newsletter Issue 1: Illinois Estate Taxes: It Isn't Always Pretty

“Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin “But we can help with the latter….” Benton C. Strauss Read the Strauss & Malk LLP Newsletter: Issue 1: Illinois Estate Taxes: It Isn’t Always Pre… Read More
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