Tag: estate tax

The Death Tax is Dead

Michael Kitces, presenting at the FPA of San Francisco this past week, unleashed a number that knocked my socks off. He said that the number of estates paying the estate tax in a typical year under our current estate tax regime is in the neighborhood of three to four thousand. […]

Living Trusts are All About Avoiding Men in Black Robes

This edition of Friedman’s Law of the First Thing is about living trusts — what are they, what are they good for (absolutely somethin’) and what are they not good for? *  *  * In a weird way, Dave Ramsey is my muse — I hear him say something on […]