Long Beach Pride Celebrates 25 Years  Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride, Inc. was established in October 1983 and produced its first festival and parade in June 1984.
Over the past several years, the Long Beach Pride Festival & Parade has become the 3rd largest in the nation, now attracting over 75,000 participants over the two-day celebration.
Foresight Legal Group is proud to be a festival participant. Please visit our booth.  More Info
Privacy Rule May Impact Estate Planning The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) became effective on April 14, 2003. HIPAA establishes national standards for the protection of certain health information. The purpose of HIPAA is to ensure that a patient's confidential health information or "protected health information" (PHI) is protected from unauthorized dissemination. The Privacy Rule applies to any health care provider that transmits or disseminates health information, assessing penalties for failing to comply, and could potentially result in rendering certain estate planning documents ineffective. More Info
Estate Planning for Non-Citizen Spouses A QDOT is a specific type of marital deduction trust that is designed to ensure that non-citizen spouses will eventually pay any taxes that may be due upon distribution of the principal from the trust, even if the surviving spouse resides outside of the United States. Without a QDOT, an estate would be immediately taxable. More Info
Actions to Challenge a Will When a person dies with an effective will in place, the will may be submitted to a court for "probate." During this court procedure, the will can be declared valid and binding on the estate of the decedent. In addition, debts are paid, property is sold, and the estate's assets are distributed. More Info
Procedure for Removing an Executor or Administrator State laws and procedures typically govern the administration of an estate. For this reason, the law varies among jurisdictions. However, in 1969, a "Uniform Probate Code" (Uniform Code) was introduced. Since that time, the Uniform Code has been amended several times and has been adopted, often with modifications, by approximately one-third of the states. More Info |
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Sliding Scale Probate Filing Fees Struck DownRecently, Justice Kenneth Yegan, in his opinion for the California Court of Appeal, called this fee filing scheme as he saw it: "This appeal is about an estate or inheritance tax masquerading as a graduated probate court user or filing fee . . . ." More
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Estate Planning Is Not
Just for the Rich If you're like most people, you think estate planning is only for the wealthy. The truth is that everyone - regardless of how much money they have - needs an estate plan.
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With candidates behind estate tax, chance of repeal seen as unlikely Estate tax reform is within reach, but efforts to repeal it appear dead. All three presidential candidates support the estate tax, but the changes they are proposing divide them along party lines.
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Legal quirk keeps families from estate tax refunds The only certain things in life, the old saying goes, are death and taxes. Donna Glen is familiar with both.
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