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Anne Heche Dies With Conflict Around Her Will, Leaving Her Sons & Estate In Legal Limbo – Part 2
By 5 West Legal | | Celebrity Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Life Planning, Wills and Trusts
Actress Anne Heche died this August following a tragic car accident, leaving behind two young sons: Homer Heche Laffoon, age 20, and Atlas Heche Tupper, age 13. Last week, in part one, we covered the way uncertainty around Heche’s estate ...
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Anne Heche Dies With Conflict Around Her Will, Leaving Her Sons & Estate In Legal Limbo — Part 1
By 5 West Legal | | Celebrity Estate Planning, Estate Planning, Life Planning, Wills and Trusts
Actress Anne Heche died this August following a tragic car accident in which she plowed her vehicle into a West Los Angeles home, where it burst into flames. After being pulled from the wreckage, the Emmy Award-winning actress was hospitalized ...
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President Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan Explained with FAQs
By 5 West Legal | | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family Financial Planning, Life Planning
This August, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a three-part plan to help low and middle-income families deal with the increasingly burdensome cost of paying for college, while also making the student loan ...
Read More Selling Real Estate or a Business? Avoid Capital Capital Gains Tax With A Charitable Remainder Trust
By 5 West Legal | | Estate Planning, Life Planning, Wills and Trusts
If you have a sale of real estate or assets coming up that will result in you owing capital gains tax, you may want to give us a call to discuss whether to set up a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) ...
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