May 20, 2008
San Francisco based Investment Immigration Attorney, Vaughan de Kirby, has announced the launch of www.VisaAnswer.com. Vaughan de Kirby has launched this site in Chinese as part of his firm’s commitment to stimulate investment and employment in the United States by attracting foreign investment capital.
April 03, 2008
By
FELICIA R. LEE
Published: April 3, 2008
When it comes to
artists trying to obtain visas, notorious performers like
Amy Winehouse usually get the
headlines. That...
March 25, 2008
Mr. Stenger said Jay Peak’s EB-5 program is expected to produce 2,000 jobs in the area, which “is very meaningful for this part of Vermont.” Some of the 2,000 are what the government calls “indirect jobs,” meaning they won’t be at Jay Peak itself but at businesses in the surrounding area that will benefit from expansion at the resort.
January 09, 2008
The Associated Press
Published: January 4th, 2008 01:00 AM
A King County Superior Court judge will determine whether a man found
not guilty by reason of insanity after killing his mother and his
brother should profit from their...
January 04, 2008
Sat, Dec. 29, 2007 The Associated Press
ATLANTA --Police have charged a 20-year-old Virginia man with breaking into his aunt's Atlanta home after his dead father's estate was willed solely to her.Investigators say Michael Amsie - carrying a sawed-off shotgun...
January 04, 2008
Chicago Sun-TimesDecember 28, 2007BY PAIGE WISER
It's painfully difficult not to make easy jokes about Paris Hilton's "The Simple Life" -- or maybe her pop song "Screwed."Now that her hotel chairman grandfather has bequeathed 97 percent of his fortune to...
January 04, 2008
By Associated PressSunday, December 30, 2007
AIKEN, S.C. - Five of James Brown’s children say their late father’s will should be invalidated because his former advisers used undue influence to get him to create charitable trusts that the advisers would...
December 21, 2007
The Frederick News-Post December 07, 2007By Gina Gallucci News-Post Staff
Are you getting letters from Spain regarding a distant relative’s will?The lawyer claims your relative died without a will and left $14.8 million behind. All you have to...
December 21, 2007
New York Times By BOB MORRISPublished: July 30, 200
NEW YORK was aghast last week at the dark drama surrounding Brooke Astor, the 104-year-old philanthropist and socialite. Her grandson is taking his father, her only son, to court for...
December 21, 2007
New York TimesBy Janon Fisher Published: March 26, 2006
FROM their introduction to each other 20 years ago to the sudden death of one of them last year, Rene Price always surprised Betty Jordan.Ms. Price and Ms. Jordan met late...
December 12, 2007
Wall Street JournalDecember 10, 2007; Page A18
We don't normally look to Tinsel Town liberals for
insights on U.S. tax policy, but Whoopi Goldberg's comments on the
estate tax last week deserve more attention.
During a discussion of Republican Presidential
candidates on ABC's...
December 12, 2007
Judge rules woman knew what she was doing · Restaurant owner says life will go on as normal
The will of a wealthy widow who left more than ÂŁ10m to the owners of a
Chinese restaurant who became...
December 12, 2007
Dailypress.comBy Kathy Van MullekomNovember 18, 2007
About four years ago, Evelyn Edwards, 89, almost...
December 12, 2007
By Diana Olick
D.C. Correspondent
CNBC
updated 7:20 a.m. PT, Wed., April. 19, 2006
WASHINGTON
- Many counting on parents' wealth may be in for a nasty surprise. They came into the world in big numbers --...
November 26, 2007
Lucky dog! That may have been your first thought when you heard that Leona Helmsley left 12 million to her Maltese, Trouble, when she died. But then, perhaps, your second thought: What's going to happen to my own pets?
November 26, 2007
In June, Vaughan de Kirby was interviewed for a feature article in the New York Times concerning issues critically important to Bay Area immigrant families and their children.
November 25, 2007
Over the next 50 years, it's expected that $45 trillion will be transferred to heirs and charities via estates - the largest wealth transfer in history. How much of it is siphoned by trustees or lost to estate taxes, administrative fees, lawyers' fees, appraiser fees, accountants' fees or poor investment acumen surely will be a record, as well.
November 23, 2007
Wearing a straw hat, frayed khaki pants and a shirt that most would have consigned to the rag pile, Wilson Lucom strolled into Richard Lehman's law office more than 30 years ago and took the Boca Raton tax attorney on the legal ride of his life.
November 21, 2007
Under the current law, the federal estate tax disappears in 2010, for just one year, and then reappears in 2011 in its 2001 incarnation.
November 15, 2007
Warren E. Buffett urged Congress yesterday to maintain the estate tax, saying that plans to repeal the tax would benefit a handful of the richest American families and widen income disparity in the United States.
November 05, 2007
Just two weeks after Howard K. Stern filed a claim against Smith's holdings, maintaining he's entitled to 6 percent of the former Playmate's potentially substantial assets, an incarcerated ex-boyfriend has stepped forward, claiming he too is deserving of a cut of Smith's fortune.
October 28, 2007
About 70% of Americans die without a will or other estate plan, experts say, even though most people say they'd like to save their heirs the time, taxes and costs that can add up when no estate planning has been done.
July 30, 2007
PARTY princess Paris Hilton is $60 million out of pocket after her billionaire grandfather - appalled by her jail term for drink-driving offenses - axed her inheritance.
January 18, 2007
What happens to child number seven when Dad's last will and testament only refers to his "six living children"? That's the question facing the five-year-old son of James Brown, who, along with his mother, was not mentioned in his famous father's will, filed Thursday in a South Carolina probate court.
