What Did the Income Tax Cut Mean for Estates?
At Fleming & Curti, PLC, we frequently act as fiduciary. That means we handle money held in trusts, conservatorships and individual names. It also means we file tax returns — lots of them. We have just completed (mostly) the 2018 tax filings, and we have some insights into how the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs […]
Estate Planning Involving Your Minor Children
If you have minor children, your estate plan will obviously revolve around their care and upbringing. You need to make sure you have the right people involved, and the right tools in place. Guardianship and custody Here’s your first planning question: who will take care of your child (or children) if you die before they […]
State Court Does Not Control Social Security Payments
MAY 12, 2014 VOLUME 21 NUMBER 17 At Fleming & Curti, PLC, we do not handle divorce cases. From time to time, though, a divorce case raises the same kinds of issues that we see in the guardianship, conservatorship and probate cases we do handle. A recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision is a case […]
Lawyer Ordered to Return Funds Taken by Conservator
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 60 Michigan Attorney William R. Ford represented Preshus Graves, who had been appointed as conservator of her son Calvin Graves. Calvin Graves, then not quite three years old, had been injured in an automobile accident, and his mother had pursued a personal injury action against the driver of the […]
