Category: Financial Planning & Investments

What You Need to Know – How to Avoid a Basis Management Disaster

By Wayne M. Zell When it comes to estate planning, many people who set out with the best of intentions make a mess of the estate plan after the fact.…

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Inherited IRA’s Not as Protected as Other Retirement Benefits

Adapted from the original article published in The Wealth Counselor on July 1, 2014 In a landmark, unanimous 9-0 decision handed down on June 12, 2014, the United States Supreme…

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John “Buck” Chapoton Discusses Brown Advisory Values

Please join Wayne Zell of Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C. for part two of his two-part interview with John “Buck” Chapoton, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury  in the Reagan Administration and Senior Advisor with Brown…

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Maryland to Increase Estate Tax Exemption

On March 20, the Maryland Senate voted to increase the lifetime estate tax exemption from $1 million per person gradually to match the federal exemption ($5.34 million in 2014).  This…

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