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In N.C. Dep’t of Revenue v. The Kimberly Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust 588 U.S. __________ (2019) , a decision eagerly awaited by tax and trust and estates professionals, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, in a 9-0 opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor a lower court decision, holding that the imposition of State tax on undistributed […]
On March 20, 2017 an interesting and as yet unpublished decanting ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court arose in the context of the divorce of Paul Ferri and Nancy Powell-Ferri pending before the Connecticut courts stating that not only could trustees of a trust under attack from a dissident spouse decant into a new […]
