This Thanksgiving season, Kemp Klein Law Firm is proud to stand with Lighthouse, a local nonprofit that provides food, shelter, housing assistance, and other essential support to thousands of families across our community each year. Together, we can help more families gather around the table with a good meal and a little extra joy this holiday season.
These experienced attorneys and executives lead complex merger and acquisition deals between companies that span the country and the globe.

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.
The Kemp Klein Foundation’s 4th Annual Charity Golf Outing was a tremendous success, raising $50,000.00 for First Tee – Greater Detroit, almost doubling donations raised in previous years’ outings.
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.

Alan A. May summarizes the latest cases in Probate.
At the trial level, cognitive decline was shown, very unclean living, criminal tenants in the same building. Proposed ward showed average intelligence, as subsequent examination showing insufficient evidence of lack of capacity. The Probate Court found clear and convincing evidence and granted petitions for guardianship and conservatorship.

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.

At the trial level, cognitive decline was shown, very unclean living, criminal tenants in the same building. Proposed ward showed average intelligence, as subsequent examination showing insufficient evidence of lack of capacity. The Probate Court found clear and convincing evidence and granted petitions for guardianship and conservatorship.

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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