A Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT) is an excellent tool for persons with large estates to transfer a principal residence or vacation home at the lowest possible gift tax value. The general rule is that if a person makes a gift of property in which he or she retains some benefit, the property is still valued (for gift tax purposes) at its full fair market value. In other words, there is no reduction of value for the donor’s retained benefit.

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Dangerous driving, as a term, can seem quite vague and ambiguous. Here we explain the facts.

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A Louisiana DUI (Driving Under the Influence) is also called a DWI (Driving While under the Influence). There is no difference between dui and dwi; you face the possibility of jail time, fines, the loss of your driver’s license, community service, and participation in counseling and educational programs either way. And you can face dui charges if you are under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

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There will be several occasions that a situation will arise during your life that you will need to conduct criminal background checks to be sure they are who they say they are. They will allow you to investigate the commercial and official records that relate to the person or persons in question.

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When the term “malpractice” is thrown around, the typical reaction is to assume that is medical malpractice. But, contrary to popular belief, there are a number of other types of medical malpractice that in no way involve negligent doctors or nurses. One of these forms of malpractice is legal malpractice.

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Want to make the world that surrounds you safer? You may be surprised to find out that…

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Finding death records are not hard to do because this information is public for anyone to see. You may have a relative that you want to get more information on and if you know a little information about them such as were they were born, etc then it is easy to get there death records. You want to start with the county office in the city were they past away because they usually will have this information.

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Cases for DUI in San Diego are rampant for many reasons. As one of the southernmost places in California, San Diego has a reputation for good weather in the sense that it is warm in the day and cool in the evenings. This has made San Diego a great weekend getaway place for a lot of Southern Californians.

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Private annuities and self-canceling installment notes are both effective wealth transfer planning techniques. There is a present lapse in the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, but it’s likely that Congress will reinstate both taxes (perhaps even retroactively) some time during 2010. If not, on January 1, 2011, the estate tax exemption (which was $3.5 million in 2009) becomes $1 million, and the top estate tax rate (which was 45% in 2009) becomes 55%.

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Child support lawyers are usually those who deal in all aspects of family law, and this experience works to your advantage and to that of the minor children involved. Family law is a vast and large field of practice, and there are countless laws and formalities that you may not have any knowledge of.

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