Settlement Planning

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Taxable Legal Settlements: How to Minimize Tax Impact on Your Settlement Awards
Understand which legal settlements are taxable and discover strategies like Qualified Settlement Funds to minimize tax impact, maximize recovery, and keep more of your award.
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Settlement Protection Trusts: A Guide to Safeguarding Assets
A settlement protection trust is a valuable tool for long-term financial security, asset protection, and tax advantages.
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Grasping Settlement Planning: Our Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Your Financial Future
Settlement planning is a comprehensive strategy to manage and allocate funds received from a legal settlement. It aims to ensure long-term financial stability and security for the beneficiaries.
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Book Review: Administering the California Special Needs Trust: A Guide for Assisting a Person with a Disability as Trustee of a Special Needs Trust
As a special needs planning attorney and director of a non-profit that administers special needs trusts this book is an essential resource for me, my staff, and clients. While written for California trustees of special needs trusts, these trusts in particular are written to conform to federal statutes and policy.
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The New MSA Reporting Requirement And The Probate Practictioner
There is a new CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) reporting requirement, Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid & SCHIP Extension Act (MMSEA), 42 USCS §1395(y)(b)(8), effective July 1, 2009 that we need to be prepared to advise litigation firms and the court when serving as Guardian Ad Litem.
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Special Needs Settlement Planning
If you are litigator, particularly a trial lawyer focused on Personal Injury, we can provide you with valuable assistance in the highly specialized area of Special Needs Settlement Planning. As you probably know, Special Needs Settlement Planning encompasses a comprehensive set of legal services that often prove pivotal in the successful long-term settlement of personal injury cases.