When two people fall in love and decide to move in together, interesting tax questions arise about home ownership. Married couples don’t have this problem. If one spouse owns the home and wants to put the other spouse on title,…
When two people fall in love and decide to move in together, interesting tax questions arise about home ownership. Married couples don’t have this problem. If one spouse owns the home and wants to put the other spouse on title,…
If you missed "The Confessions" on PBS November 9, you can catch it online now here. The program investigates what led the "Norfolk Four" to confess to a rape and murder they did not commit.
An article in The Columbus Dispatch, published on November 21, illustrates the changed lives of three wrongly convicted men. After decades in prison, the three DNA exonerees struggle to find their way and adjust to life on the outside. Read the article…
On my inaugural welcome post to this blog I mentioned that the IRS has issued a CCA holding that California RDPs (Registered Domestic Partners) are covered by the holding in Poe v. Seaborn, a 1930 Supreme Court case that ruled…
This morning I woke up thinking about the estate tax. Will we continue to have one? Will the exemption of $3.5M be reinstated or will it revert to the meager $1.0M exemption, as scheduled for January 1, 2011. And, when…
Many states recognize formally created relatioships of same-sex couples and treat them the same as spouses under their divorce laws. Some states recognize marriage (e.g., Massachusetts, Iowa). Some recognize Registered Domestic Partnerships or RDPs (e.g., California, Washington, Nevada, Oregon). And…
A friend from the east coast emailed me this morning. (Well, to be honest, it was probably afternoon on the east coast.) Her question was: are alimony payments made in same-sex divorces taxable as gifts? Apparently a local family law…
INTRODUCTION TO TAX ISSUES FOR SAME SEX COUPLES The Internal Revenue Code provides numerous special provisions for spouses. At the current time none of these provisions applies to same-sex couples. Even legally married same-sex couples, residing in states where their…
"The Confessions," which investigates what led the "Norfolk Four" to confess to a rape and murder they did not commit, airs Tuesday, November 9 at 9 PM EST on PBS. Check your local listings, and read about the program here.
TONIGHT (Friday, November 5) ON 20/20: a one-hour feature on a case of a police officer (Clyde Ray Spencer) who was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of the molestation of his children. Read more about the case here, and be…