Under President Biden’s proposed changes in the estate tax law, the estate tax exemption would be reduced from $11.7 million per person to $3.5 million per person and the gift tax would be reduced from $11.7 million to... Continue Reading
Plaintiff alleged a viable public policy exception to the rule governing the termination of at-will employees where she claimed her employer demanded that she commit a crime, i.e., perjures herself in a disposition, and then... Continue Reading
Voiding of irrevocable trust by settlor for fraudulent inducement had to be based on common law fraud standard. Wife Margaret Passarelli appealed from the... Continue Reading
A person born out of wedlock presented clear and convincing evidence that decedent was her father, so she was an heir who was entitled to a share of his estate. Decedent died intestate in November 2016. The petition for... Continue Reading
Petitioner lacked standing to seek the removal of the trustee of the subject trust where he had no direct or personal beneficial interest in the trust and his claim in the trust was no greater than that of the general public.... Continue Reading