Wealth and Law

This week, Brent and Rachel are joined again by Darren Case for Part 2 of their conversation about post-election estate planning. This is a rapid fire session, where we throw ideas for end of year planning at Darren and he gives us his hot takes. We cover:

1. SCIN GRATs
2. Long-Term Notes
3. Series SLATs
4. Flip SLATs
5. 99-Year GRATs

Darren is a shareholder in the law firm Tiffany & Bosco, PA, in Phoenix, AZ. He assists families and individuals in the areas of estate planning, probate, and tax, and is the Co-Author (with Brent Nelson and TJ Ryan coincidentally) of the Arizona Estate Planning and Probate Handbook, published by Thomson Reuters – West. Darren is experienced in a broad range of planning techniques, including traditional wills and revocable trusts, along with more sophisticated planning strategies such as insurance trusts, residence trusts, “defective” grantor trusts, generation-skipping or dynasty trusts, charitable trusts, split-interest trusts, family limited partnerships and intra-family sales and loans, etc. He assists clients by providing tax and estate planning services specifically tailored to each individual client, whether it is a client who has amassed substantial wealth or those who are in the process of accumulating such wealth.  Darren is also experienced in the area of probate and trust administration and litigation, having worked on simple to complex trust and estate matters, and everything in between.

Darren attended Arizona State University for his undergraduate studies, where he received his Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies in business and communication. He received his law degree from Chapman University, graduating with an emphasis in taxation, and was the Tax Law Emphasis Honors Graduate of his class. In addition to his law degree, Darren received his Master of Laws in Taxation, with a Certificate in Estate Planning, from Georgetown University.

Darren’s firm bio and contact information are available at https://www.tblaw.com/attorneys/darren-t-case/.

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This week, Brent and Rachel are joined again by Darren Case to talk about post-election estate planning. They dive into what the election results mean for end-of-year tax planning and how Arizona’s Prop. 208 affects high-income families. They also get into a fun Q&A on unique tax planning techniques.

Darren is a shareholder in the law firm Tiffany & Bosco, PA, in Phoenix, AZ. He assists families and individuals in the areas of estate planning, probate, and tax, and is the Co-Author (with Brent Nelson and TJ Ryan coincidentally) of the Arizona Estate Planning and Probate Handbook, published by Thomson Reuters – West. Darren is experienced in a broad range of planning techniques, including traditional wills and revocable trusts, along with more sophisticated planning strategies such as insurance trusts, residence trusts, “defective” grantor trusts, generation-skipping or dynasty trusts, charitable trusts, split-interest trusts, family limited partnerships and intra-family sales and loans, etc. He assists clients by providing tax and estate planning services specifically tailored to each individual client, whether it is a client who has amassed substantial wealth or those who are in the process of accumulating such wealth.  Darren is also experienced in the area of probate and trust administration and litigation, having worked on simple to complex trust and estate matters, and everything in between.

Darren attended Arizona State University for his undergraduate studies, where he received his Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies in business and communication. He received his law degree from Chapman University, graduating with an emphasis in taxation, and was the Tax Law Emphasis Honors Graduate of his class. In addition to his law degree, Darren received his Master of Laws in Taxation, with a Certificate in Estate Planning, from Georgetown University.

Darren’s firm bio and contact information are available at https://www.tblaw.com/attorneys/darren-t-case/.

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With the 2020 federal elections now completed (well, almost completed), Brent and Rachel go into their three-step plan for how to reconcile after the election and move forward. They also get into Arizona’s Proposition 207, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and what the post-election landscape means for the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice.

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Brent and Rachel dive into incapacity on this week’s episode of the Wealth and Law podcast. They explain what incapacity is, how Powers of Attorney can help, what happens if there was no planning (or the plan fails), and how a revocable trust provides even better protection. Incapacity is a vast subject that could be discussed for hours–but this episode will introduce the listener to the main issues at hand when incapacity planning is brought up as an essential issue in estate planning.

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This week Brent and Rachel introduce family limited partnerships (FLPs). They discuss the basics, how FLPs have been used historically in planning for high net worth families, how they are treated for tax purposes, current law around FLP’s efficacy, and how to use FLPs under the current IRS attacks. The discussion is high level, and there are many nuances to FLPs not covered in this episode. But, the listener should get a general understanding of FLPs and how they function. Enjoy!

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Brent and Rachel chat about how their business development options have changed due to the pandemic, how they have pivoted, and what seems to work for them. They talk in depth about the podcast, social media, and connecting with their clients and key relationships. Most importantly, they discuss what they do to make personal connections in a digital environment.

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On this week’s episode, Brent and Rachel sit down with Samuel Deane, MBA to discuss equity compensation packages, stock options, and tying it all together with an estate plan. They particularly focus on how millennials in tech and start-up companies can navigate through various types of compensation packages and what issues to focus on when negotiating a compensation package.

Samuel Deane is a financial planner, entrepreneur, and is the founder of Deane Financial Partners, Inc., an independent investment advisory firm for millennials in technology.

After spending some time working in an industry traditionally reserved for wealthy baby boomers, Samuel realized that he could provide wealth management and financial planning services more efficiently for his generation. Samuel has become a financial expert and a go-to resource for national media outlets. He’s been mentioned in Forbes, CNBC, Huffington Post, Investment News, and more. Samuel is also a coveted speaker and loves spreading his wisdom on entrepreneurship, personal finance, and smart investing to his community.

Samuel can be contacted via his website at https://deanefinancial.com/contact/.

This week, Brent and Rachel sit down with Shiraz Ahmed to talk about common cross border tax issues that may arise for Americans moving to Canada, and Canadians moving to the U.S. They discuss passive foreign investment companies, retirement accounts, and more. They also highlight how a basic estate plan in one country may be treated entirely different in the other.

Shiraz is a Financial Advisor and Founder of the Sartorial Wealth team of Raymond James Ltd. He specializes in coordinating the financial care for clients. Shiraz works with specialists inside the firm as well as the clients’ attorneys and accountants to consolidate their finances into one coherent financial plan. He also specializes in family services. Shiraz holds a Chartered Investment Management (CIM) designation and is among an elite group of advisors fully licensed in Canada and the US and registered with both IIROC and FINRA.

Shiraz’s bio and contact information are available at https://www.sartorialwealth.com/our-team/bio?_=shiraz.ahmed.

This week we discuss the recent New York Times article disclosing what it claims are President Trumps tax returns and tax information. Rachel and Brent peal back the onion of the tax code to break down the net operating losses, tax credits, deductions, payments, and refunds disclosed in the article. They also dig into the tax laws that apply to the positions taken in the returns.

As an initial assumption, we take the factual claims in the articles as true and then jump off from there to explain how the techniques used on the returns are done under the tax code.

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Brent and Rachel sit down with S. Victoria Kahn to discuss Nevada’s favorable trust laws. They discuss the flexibility and asset protection features of Nevada law, how there’s no state income tax, and how individuals and families are using Nevada trusts to their advantage today.

Victoria leads The Whittier Trust Company of Nevada Inc.’s Reno, Nevada office, and oversees The Whittier Trust Company of Nevada’s Client Advisory group. Victoria also serves on the board of directors of The Whittier Trust Company of Nevada, Inc. Victoria joined Whittier Trust Company in 2017 as a client advisor and has worked with clients in the areas of trust and agency administration, including document review, fiduciary accounting, investments, real estate, taxes, estate planning, philanthropy, and family dynamics.

Victoria has a B.A. in history, cum laude from Colgate University and her J.D. from University of California, Davis School of Law. She earned her L.L.M. in taxation and her Estate Planning Certificate from Georgetown University Law Center. Victoria is admitted to practice law in California and is a certified Trust and Estate Practitioner.

Victoria can be reached at [email protected].