Taxation & Estate Planning

A Modern Fault: Financial Infidelity
A spouse wants to be able to spend money without having to account to or justify the expenditure to the other spouse. How to accomplish it? Either hidden savings or hidden credit cards...

Comparing the financial markets and the telecom markets
This article says - if you leave the telecommunications companies to their own devices on net neutrality, they will screw things up as bad as the financial companies have done, for the same reasons - because the laws are relics of the Depression era, and inadequate in the modern age to ensure some minimum protections for the public.

Weathering Tough Financial Times-The Long Term Costs of Quick Cash
?Rising fuel and food prices, declines in the housing market, volatility in the financial markets, an ever-tightening credit crunch...– they?re all creating unexpected financial challenges for many Americans, But tough financial times don?t necessarily justify resorting to risky ways to...

The hidden costs of the death penalty: California
The California death penalty costs well over a $100 million each year. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California will release in a few hours will release “The Hidden Death Tax” looking at records of actual trial expenses and state budgets to calculate the real world fiscal costs of California’s death chamber...

Pelosi Statement on Legislation to Address Crisis in Financial Markets
Speaker Pelosi issued the following statement today as Congress and the White House work to craft legislation to address the crisis in our financial markets: Congress will respond to the financial markets crisis by taking action this week in a bipartisan manner that will protect the taxpayers’ interests...

Bernanke Outlines Regulatory Reform
In a speech today, Addressing Weaknesses in the Global Financial Markets: The Report of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, Ben S. Bernanke offered some preliminary conclusions about the causes of the current turmoil and identified some measures to...

Income Tax Changes for 2007
Get Answers to your Income Tax Questions

The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
Phantom Income Relief on Debt Cancellation

Atlas Cold Storage
Income Trust to pay $40 million to settle a class action that claims misrepresented financial statements.

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Prepaid Debit Card
alleging hidden prepaid debit card fees.

Mississippi Antitrust
Costs Microsoft $100 Million

Robert Fresh Markets Win $21.6 Million Insurance Lawsuit
Robert Fresh Groceries Wins $21.6 Million Katrina Insurance Lawsuit