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Rethink the Credit-Shelter Trust



byJames M. Kane
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry - Atlanta Office

January 31, 2013

Previously published on January 28, 2013

The recent American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 increase in the income tax rates and creation of the new 3.8% investment (Medicare) tax can be costly for a typical estate planning credit-shelter trust, absent a rethinking about its design.


 

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