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For the couple planning marriage, the focus is often on the union itself and not the meshing of financial assets, rights, and obligations. In a time when many couples are marrying later in life, have children and other financial responsibilities from a previous marriage, or have considerable assets that they want to safeguard, a prenuptial agreement can be a helpful planning tool.

This Educational Insights discusses the unique estate tax and insurance implications of owning real estate in multiple jurisdictions.

A properly structured, funded, and invested dynasty trust can be a powerful tool in achieving significant tax savings on the transfer of wealth across generations. This paper discusses the tax benefits of dynasty trusts under Delaware law as well as funding and investment management strategies to consider.

Proposals to reduce federal debt have largely missed the mark. That is certainly the case when it comes to suggestions to replace tax-exempt municipal bonds with taxable alternatives or federally subsidized tax credit options. These alternatives not only produce much less in revenue for the US Treasury than most assume, they also result in a loss of local control, diminish access to jobs]producing capital, and put taxpayers on the hook with debt gguaranteesh reminiscent of the subprime mortgage era.

The authors summarize the history of the IRS' voluntary disclosure programs to date and conclude that, indeed, it is still possible for a U.S. person to become U.S. tax compliant and avoid criminal prosecution by making a voluntary disclosure.

The low interest rate environment, depressed asset values and current transfer tax rules seem to offer superior wealth transfer planning opportunities. However, time may be of the essence as the window of opportunity created by these three conditions may be short-lived.

This organizer, developed by a FOX Thought Leaders Council™ member, assists individuals in the collection and organization of personal and financial information essential to the estate planning process.

Many wealthy individuals are being told to prepare for more income tax audits by the Internal Revenue Service. Recent statistics seem to support that view. The IRS recently released its annual Data Book, which summarizes audit and collection activities for fiscal year 2010. Not surprisingly, the IRS is focusing its audits on returns that will likely produce the most revenue for the U.S. Treasury.

Research shows investment managers are far too willing to incur a large negative tax alpha for taxable clients while pursuing a pretax alpha. The result is that most investment management products offer a combined alpha that is negative: pretax alpha, whether good or bad, less a relentlessly negative tax alpha.