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Your responsibilities as a trustee or executor of an estate may include completing the tax filings of the deceased and requesting tax clearance prior to the distribution of the estate in accordance with the will terms. Let’s say you find out that the deceased’s tax filings were not all up to date or incomplete and you have read about the possibility of tax penalties.
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In the years that I have been practicing I’ve come to realize the importance of having a team approach to addressing a client’s estate plan. Whether the team includes the accountant, who suggests an ‘estate freeze’, the insurance advisor who considers the extent and type of insurance needed to best fulfill the client’s goals, the investment advisor who works to achieve both the client’s retirement and legacy goals or other lawyers who are involved in the client’s legal affairs, all the advisors have a role to play in ensuring the client’s estate play is properly implemented. No where is the team approach perhaps more paramount than when the areas of family and estate law intersect…..
Making sure you play with your best hand Continue Reading »
Estate Litigation, Estate PlanningI have encountered parents who are extremely worried about their challenged children’s financial well bein on theri death…isn’t it more effective to raise this issue now?….
A Henson Trust May Not Be Enough Continue Reading »
Capacity Law, Estate Planning, GuardianshipIn my last blog, I wrote about how you might consider refreezing your existing freeze shares if the enterprise has recently declined in value, so that your chosen successors can participate sooner in the future growth of your enterprise and in the meantime your tax liability can be reduced on the disposition of those shares by you or your estate. Today I would like to write about how you might accomplish a refreeze and provide you with a few words of caution.
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TIME FOR A REFREEZE – PART 2 Continue Reading »
Business Succession Planning, Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Investments, Small Business, Succession Planning, Tax Issues