Rupe Gill Joins Walker Lambe
We are pleased to introduce our new addition to the Walker Lambe family, attorney Rupe Gill! Rupe heads our Elder Law, Special Needs and Medicaid Planning Group, and provides services to clients which include preparation of revocable living trusts, irrevocable living trusts, wills, living wills, various powers of attorney, as well as deeds for Medicaid and estate planning. He also guides clients through the probate process for estates large or small. Through speaking engagements, Rupe educates professionals, civic groups and the public on Medicaid, Veterans issues and Estate Planning. Rupe has over 15 years of legal experience, having served as lead attorney for the Charleston Air Force Base Law Center, which is the sole provider of legal services to more than 5,000 Air Force members assigned to Charleston AFB and a retiree community of over 38,000. Welcome Aboard!!!!!

Can We Only Expect the Unexpected from Congress?
Your estate plan may need a tax checkup!

Sign after sign from Washington in 2009 suggested that Congress would repeal the estate tax repeal, or at least extend 2009's $3.5 million applicable exclusion from estate tax into 2010. It never happened. As a result, for individuals dying in 2010, the estate tax has now actually been repealed, as legislated all those many years ago, in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 ("EGTRRA").

While the repeal of the estate tax might sound like something to celebrate, the party will be short-lived, and seemingly restricted to those who plan to die in 2010 (or, ironically, to their loved ones?) - as Congressional action in 2001 also provided for the rebirth of the estate tax in 2011, for all estates in excess of $1 million.

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