Lancaster Law Blog

A few months ago I participated in a presentation in conjunction with Edward Jones called Key Life Decisions: Are You Prepared? I spoke about estate planning documents, such as wills, financial powers of attorney and...

Estate planning is something most people know is important but it’s often something that they put off for a later date, likely because it brings with it unpleasant thoughts about disability and death, but also...

Christmas came a little early for many taxpayers in the enactment last week of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010(the "Act"), which extended the Bush tax cuts for two...

The writer of Ecclesiastes did not have tax law in mind when he said that there is a time to live and a time to die. However, because Congress did not act to extend the current federal estate tax law, the tax expires on...

Many of you may remember that back in 2001, Congress enacted legislation that was supposed to have repealed the Federal Estate Tax (the "FET"). However, anyone familiar with the Tax Reconciliation Act of 2001...