May 2010

 "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses and waste of time."                                                                                  ——–Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s words are doubly true today. Our society is beset with litigation – and all too often, there are no

Here we are four months into 2010 and there has been no change to the gift and estate tax law.  Most observers were surprised that a patch to continue the law as it stood in 2009 was not enacted.  Now there is talk of such a patch or even a new law that would accomplish