In this episode of Pro Bono with Ed Nahhat, we sit down with Brian Rolfe, President and CEO of Kemp Klein Law Firm. Brian shares his journey from joining the firm in 2007 to leading it today, emphasizing the firm’s unique culture and long-standing staff.
In addition to being named one of the nation’s top firms in 2024, Kemp Klein Law Firm was the only Michigan law firm selected for the honor this year.
The Treasury Department announced that there will be no enforcement of penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”).
On Monday, September 16th, 2024, Kemp Klein held the 3rd Annual Kemp Klein Foundation Charity Golf Outing to benefit Forgotten Harvest, a charity that has been fighting hunger and food insecurity since 1990. The event raised $33,000 for Forgotten Harvest, which will be able to feed around 129,000 people.
The research for the Top Lawyers list was created by PRS (Professional Research Services) and is based on an online peer-review survey sent out to the certified lawyers within the metro Detroit area.
Alan A. May summarizes the latest cases in Probate.
Decedent, during his lifetime, believed that daughter was mishandling decedent’s money. Decedent had a fractured relationship with Appellant and a close relationship with daughter. Daughter was delineated in some manner to benefit from the structuring of a credit union account. The Court doesn’t say how she was to have benefited.
Under Internal Revenue Code (”IRC”) §1014, Inherited property has a basis equal to the property’s fair market value on the date of death. The double basis step up is the brass ring of estate planning. The term double basis step up means a basis step up in all marital property on the first death of a husband and wife and a second basis step up on the death of the surviving spouse.
Decedent, during his lifetime, believed that daughter was mishandling decedent’s money. Decedent had a fractured relationship with Appellant and a close relationship with daughter. Daughter was delineated in some manner to benefit from the structuring of a credit union account. The Court doesn’t say how she was to have benefited.
Kemp Klein Attorneys Joseph P. Buttiglieri and Robert S. Zawideh successfully represented the the plaintiffs in a case in which they were disinherited. After hotly contested litigation, all the parties agreed to a 60/40 split of the estate, with the 40% group (who weren’t in the final will).
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