More and more families own property, assets, and businesses together. Using an entity to govern... [Read more...]
Michael J. O’Brien, Estate Planning Attorney
Michael J. O’Brien is a practicing attorney and a founding partner of Cleveland-based The O’Brien Law Firm LLC. Mr. O’Brien’s firm emphasizes estate and trust planning and administration, probate, corporate planning, family business, family limited partnership and charitable trust and private family foundation planning Read More!
Practical Lessons in Drafting
Individuals who undertake Estate Planning want to ensure that their plan works the way it’s... [Read more...]
The Sky Isn’t Falling
When we learned of the original provisions in the Build Back Better Act, many individuals... [Read more...]
Tax Planning for 2022
Planning is important for your income taxation during life as well as for any estate... [Read more...]
It’s Better to Give Than to Receive
Most taxpayers understand that to receive the benefit of charitable deductions, they need to itemize... [Read more...]
The Role of the Estate Planning Attorney
Clients often come to an Estate Planning attorney with specific ideas in their minds. The... [Read more...]
Use It Before It’s Gone
The amount you can pass free from estate tax is at a record high of... [Read more...]
ABLE Accounts Complement Special Needs Trusts
ABLE accounts are a nice, flexible way to supplement the usefulness of a Special Needs... [Read more...]
Tax Proposals Could Alter Estate Planning Landscape
Senators Sanders and Whitehouse have introduced legislation in the Senate which would significantly alter the... [Read more...]
CRT: Best Tool for Proposed Tax Changes?
Tax proposals would increase capital gains rates, among other things. These proposed changes could make... [Read more...]
Dynasty Trusts
What’s a “Dynasty Trust?” Such a trust is one that continues for the maximum term... [Read more...]
Beneficiary Designations
Beneficiary designations can be deceptively simple. You simply designate the person to whom you want... [Read more...]
