According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the three leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease, cancer, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. However, a recent study by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine suggests that there is another culprit, not tracked by the CDC, which surpasses respiratory disease and ranks as the third-leading cause… Read Complete Article...

As of January 1, 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017 Tax Act) doubled the amount of property that a person can gift or pass upon death without incurring estate, gift, or generation-skipping transfer taxes. The act doubled the amount that would be free of these transfer taxes (the basic exclusion amount) to $11.2 million if single and… Read Complete Article...