The Ohio Trust & Estate Blog
The Ohio Trust & Estate Blog links to news items and blog posts on trusts and estates issues.
Author: Author Michael D. Bonasera is an attorney practicing in the Columbus, Ohio, office of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs.
Blawg Related Categories: Trusts & Estates • States • Ohio • Associate
Recent Posts from The Ohio Trust & Estate Blog
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Ohio Fells Another Trust Mill – UPDATE
My last post pointed to a Columbus Bar Association press release about Columbus Bar Assn. v. Am. Family Prepaid Legal Corp., Slip Opinion No. 2009-Ohio-5336, (available here as a PDF). In that case the Ohio…
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Ohio Fells Another Trust Mill
From a Columbus Bar Association press release last Wednesday: The Columbus Bar Association announced today that the Supreme Court of Ohio, in a unanimous decision in Columbus Bar Assn. v. Am. Family Prepaid Legal Corp.,…
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Income From Restricted Endowment Can Be Used For Construction Project at Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Endowment fund may use the income from four “art-purchase funds” to contribute to the cost of renovating the museum even though such use is against the original intent of such…
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The Case That Will Never End – Anna Nicole Smith Investigated in Murder Plot
I thought all elements of this case had been covered… Oh how naive I can be. This article muses about Mrs. Smith’s possible involvement in a plot to kill her late husband’s son while they were…
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The Future of The Estate Tax – Rumor Round-Up
Much has been written of late about our evolving federal estate tax so I thought it prudent to aggregate the claims, guesses and rumors that are out there. I don’t know if this is meant…
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New “Asisted” Suicide Case in Austrailia
CNN reports that an Australian man, Christian Rossiter, recently won his right to die, by refusing food and water, from the Australian Supreme Court. The case is interesting for two reasons: 1) Chief Justice Wayne…
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An Update on The New Michigan Trust Code
The below is from a Plant Moran email blast that my dad forwarded to me this morning… Thought it was important enough to share. The MTC was signed into law by Governor Granholm on June…
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The CBO – Estate Tax Alternatives
The Congressional Budget Office has published the creatively titled: The Estate Tax and Charitable Giving. (warning, link is a PDF) The preface reads in pertinent part: This paper by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) [...] examines the…
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A Worst Case Scenario For The Estate Tax
Greg Herman-Giddens of the North Caroline Estate Planning Blog cites inside sources in the U.S. Senate for the following prediction: Congress will do nothing to reform the present estate tax laws. Rather, they will pass…
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Heir to IBM Fortune Adopts Her Lesbian Parter in Maine – Supreme Court Upholds Adoption’s Validity
This seemed as good a topic as any to ease myself back into the blog-o-webs, so here goes: According to this story at 39online.com (a CW network affiliate out of Houston), Maine’s highest court gave…