In this episode of Pro Bono with Ed Nahhat, we sit down with Amanda Afton Martin, a seasoned estate planning attorney whose career has been shaped deeply by her family and a passion for helping others.
Kemp Klein Attorneys Joseph P. Buttiglieri and Robert S. Zawideh successfully represented the the plaintiffs in a case in which they were disinherited. This was a complex will contest involving a solitary man who died with no wife or children.
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Alan A. May summarizes the latest cases in Probate.
Appellants were disinherited by the ultimate testamentary documents. Appellants claimed that by inference Appellant had actual notice of the antecedent amendments and their date. Appellee cited the 6-month statute of limitation.
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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.
Appellants were disinherited by the ultimate testamentary documents. Appellants claimed that by inference Appellant had actual notice of the antecedent amendments and their date. Appellee cited the 6-month statute of limitation.
Kemp Klein Attorneys Joseph P. Buttiglieri and Robert S. Zawideh successfully represented the the plaintiffs in $4.2 Million Settlement Over Will Dispute 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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