John J. Long, Jr., JD – Partner
Please join us in celebrating and congratulating John on his new role as Partner at Stewart Law, P.A.
Estates, Trusts and Administration
Please join us in celebrating and congratulating John on his new role as Partner at Stewart Law, P.A.
When you give assets to someone during your lifetime or through your estate, the gifts are subject to gift and estate taxes. Fortunately, current laws provide for a large gift and estate tax exemption—an amount you can give before you face any tax liability.
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Lifetime gifting, to children or others, has been a popular technique to reduce estate taxes for a long time. Currently, with estate tax exemption amounts exceeding $11 Million per person, most people do not have an urgent tax savings motivation for making gifts. However, this doesn’t mean that sticking to a gifting program is without […]
As trusted advisors, we see it as our job to alert you to strategies that can help build and protect your family’s wealth and the lifestyle it supports. From a macro perspective, we see an estate tax that takes essentially no wealth from the vast majority of families, historically high federal deficits, and a real possibility […]
Protecting your assets from creditors (“asset protection”) is a topic you don’t think much about until a triggering event, and then it can jump to the top of your priorities. The triggering event may be an accident with personal injuries on your property, a contract commitment turning bad, or involvement in a financial project where […]