Excerpted from http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080611/clw030.html?.v=101 According to a study sponsored by U.S. Trust, owners of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) family businesses remain exposed to business succession, asset protection and estate planning issues. “Owners...
When a decedent dies owning stock in a closely held corporation or partnership, the valuation of those shares is a perennial problem precisely because they are closely-held (i.e., there’s no ready market for the ownership interests). Since estate tax is ad...