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Do Gift Recipients Have to Pay Taxes?

Do Gift Recipients have to Pay Taxes? Do Gift Recipients Have to Pay Taxes? Transcript: Hi this is Wes Coulson and this is your estate planning and elder law minute. One of the questions that we get frequently relates to whether there are taxes on gifts. Quick answer is, that 99% of the time, no. […]

“Documents Only, Not Legal Advice”

The internet purveyors of legal documents are always very careful to note, in their seemingly ubiquitous commercials, that they offer document services only, and not legal advice. We recently submitted for filing, in a Missouri court, the Will of someone who had utilized a form provided by one of those document services. It probably seemed […]

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