Month: May 2015

Many Pennsylvania residents have worked hard to amass their current level of wealth. The prospect of losing a sizable portion of that wealth to estate tax requirements can be distressing. A number of solutions are to be found for reducing estate tax obligations,...

Our posts recently have been focused on the estates of deceased celebrities. It is worth noting that when celebrity estate planning makes news headlines, it is never because their estate plans were air-tight and that nothing was disputed. Rather, these are cautionary...

We are talking about Marvin Gaye's estate and the sad condition his finances were in when he passed away more than 25 years ago. Like Michael Jackson, Gaye left enormous debts behind. Unlike Jackson, Gaye left no will.Gaye's situation was bad enough that the court...

When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he was just about broke. His reputation was trashed among allegations of child abuse, and his beloved Neverland estate was in disrepair and deeply in debt. The tour that Jackson was preparing for was going to be his ticket back to...