Matthew Curtiss, Esq

Recent Posts from Matthew Curtiss, Esq

• Glassell Heiress Loses $100 Million in Fight Over Dad’s Will - Bloomberg.com

  Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Alfred C. Glassell Jr.’s daughter won’t get a $100 million share of a half-billion-dollar fortune the Texas oilman left to his family foundation and a Houston art museum in his 2003…

• NY Post: Leona kin $crew the pooch

  More than 30 animal-rescue groups have written letters to the judge presiding over the administration of the late Queen of Mean's fortune, asking that she help carry out Helmsley's request that her money go to…

• State Death Taxes Are the Latest Worry - WSJ.com

  With the federal estate tax disappearing for most people, state death taxes have emerged as a surprise new worry. This year, the federal exemption rose to $3.5 million per individual, or as much as $7…

• Will the Estate Tax Disappear? - WSJ.com

  Many people hope the federal estate tax will disappear next year, as scheduled. They could be sorry if it does. Back in 2000, Congress enacted a gradual loosening of the estate exemption. It has since…

• Illinois Supreme Court: Wills can use religious tests -- chicagotribune.com

  Though Erla Feinberg's final act might have disappointed most of her grandchildren, it carried out her late husband's dying wish in a way that held up in court. In a unanimous decision Thursday, the Illinois…

• TheDay.com - Be prepared to pay more to fish

  As predicted by many area anglers when the saltwater fishing license went into effect, the fees are going up - in surprisingly short order, even for the most skeptical. It hasn't even been a year…

• ATM Machine installed at UK Cemetery

  The Board has agreed to a test project which has put a cash machine in a tombstone at Chester Jewish Cemetery. Following the death of Morris Gorski earlier this year, he put in his will…

• TheDay.com Fishing Report- Some things are almost sure things

  In other news, Allen said casters were catching school bass tight to the rock on the south side of Middle Clump and blues in the rip between the rock and the 21 can. Richard Gilman…

• Dogs, Ferrari, strangers -- weird stipulations in Wills - CNN.com

  West, a California socialite and oil heiress, died when she was just 37 years old and requested that she be buried "in my lace nightgown ... in my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." Her…

• Congress begins to work on the Federal Estate Tax

  With all of the talk of health care, public options, spicy mustard, socialism, and Michelle's arms; its nice to see some members of Congress address the approaching year-long federal estate tax repeal. NACSOnline has a…