2025 Washington State Estate Tax update introduces significant changes including higher exemption amounts and new estate tax brackets starting July 1, 2025. Read more about how this could affect you and your clients: https://wix.to/etqd1dc #EstateTax
Paul Premack
Paul is an attorney in San Antonio, licensed in Texas and Washington. His blog at Premack.com has years of legal information and insights on estate planning, probate, and elder law issues.
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I mean, shocking! You mean, Dr. Trump was wrong?!?
“Authors of a new study—a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials involving 44 separate cohort studies—estimate that 16,990 Covid-19 patients in the U.S., France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Turkey died as a result of taking the drug. This translates into an 11% increase in the mortality rate among #COVID19 patients.”
Is a Living Trust right for me?
When you own land in multiple states, your estate may have to go to probate in all of those states. A Living Trust can be the solution.
Early Voting starts on Texas Constitutional Amendments
The largest portion of this election deals with 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. These have been passed by the legislature but are only effective if approved by the voters. The list of proposals is long and varied, so here is a short recap of each so you can decide how to vote. #vote #texas #constitution
The Executor of a Will has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the estate and its beneficiaries. This includes managing assets like real estate until they can be properly handled under the instructions in the Will.
https://www.premack.com/post/understanding-property-deeds-and-inheritance
A new 2023 law, the federal Inflation Reduction Act, has for the first time given legal authority for Medicare to participate in the free market by negotiating directly with drug manufacturers. The goal is to dramatically lower your out-of-pocket spending for drugs covered by Medicare Part B and Part D.
As part of that process, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a series of listening sessions as part of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.
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Republicans trying to rebrand as “pro-baby” ?
Red states have the highest infant mortality rates
Red states have the highest maternal mortality rates
…And the least amount of services for new mothers
Red states ban books and school lunches while making child labor legal
“Pro baby”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/MMR-2018-State-Data-508.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/MMR-2018-State-Data-508.pdf
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It’s now clear that Leonard Leo, Ginni Thomas and Harlan Crow conspired in the wake of Citizens United, where Justice Clarence Thomas cast a decisive vote, to unleash over a billion dollars to reshape the judiciary in the mold of the Federalist Society.
The result is now an extreme right-wing Supreme Court that has overturned abortion rights, environmental law, and affirmative action. And they are far from done.
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Your Thursday reminder to wear a mask b/c COVID-19 is NOT OVER. #COVID19isairborne #WEARAMASK #COVID19
New Texas Law on Felons as Executors
The purpose of SB1373 is to respect the testator's wishes and to give more flexibility to people who want to appoint their loved ones as Executors, regardless of their criminal history. However, this bill also raises some potential concerns about the trustworthiness and competence of a felon as an Executor.
https://www.premack.com/post/new-2023-texas-law-on-executor-qualifications
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You know why mask mandates are coming back in nations like India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and some US and Australian hospitals, even as other regions and hospitals drop theirs? The proper answer isn't that #COVID19 is surging. It's that WE NEVER SHOULD'VE DROPPED MASK MANDATES while COVID continues to mutate, circulate widely, and threaten the health and quality of life of so many. #WearAMask 😷
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US FDA approves 2nd booster shot for adults 65 and older and those with weakened immune systems https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/29/1166629853/the-fda-may-soon-authorize-a-spring-round-of-covid-19-boosters-for-some-people
#Covid #Covid19
Here is a short video explaining how and why to help the monarch migration. #monarchbutterfly #migration #endangered
For many years, we have planted waystation gardens for the monarch butterfly migration. #monarchbutterfly Today, we saw our first monarch caterpillar of the spring. So beautiful! The monarchs need all the help we as a society can give them.
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Despite the complete blackout of #COVID19 coverage on mainstream media, and Biden's declaration of the end of #Covid emergency measures, #CovidIsNotOver.
Scientists, health care workers, and advocates denounce this move and the removing of masks in hospitals and other medical settings.
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Gov Greg Abbott pardons a murderer who killed a BLM protester to make Tucker Carlson happy. (I'm serious.) Abbott is saying you can KILL people who the GOP disagrees with politically and he will have your back. I explain details in my new article: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/gov-greg-abbott-pardons-a-murderer
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Happy World #Atheist Day! Today I celebrate my freedom from religious indoctrination, and remember those in corrupt religious regimes that are denied the same freedom. #secular #humanist #freedom #indoctrination #nullifidian #science #criticalthinking #worldatheistday #exchristian #exmuslim #excatholic #exjew #exmo #exjw #cult
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#Newstodon Friday highlights the work of newsrooms who are active in the #fediverse.
If you want #journalism here, a boost and a follow always helps!
Here are some newsrooms for you to check out:
@thexylom
@TexasObserver
@msfreepress
@damemagazine
@TucsonSentinel
@themarkup
@STAT
@ProPublica
@TheConversationUS
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