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Most married couples plan their estates to leave their assets to their surviving spouse. In this way, they can use the unlimited marital deduction. Using the unlimited marital deduction will reduce the size of the decedent’s estate and reduce estate taxes. However, this may mean that the deceased spouse neglected to take advantage of his or her exemption equivalent, which was 3.5 million dollars for 2009. If a surviving spouse doesn’t need the estate assets to support him/her financially, then he/she may think about filing a qualified disclaimer. Filing an asset disclaimer for tax pur...

Indians shy away from accepting the fact that they will die like all mortals. Since making a will is a tacit acceptance of the fact that one will die someday, Indians shy away from making their wills and die intestate leaving behind inheritances that lead to disputes and acrimony. A will is a documentation of how you desire to distribute your material possessions after death. It can be amended as and when there is a change in your material belongings or when you wish to distribute the inheritance differently. A will ensures that those you care for get a share of your belongings in accord...

If you and your spouse have been forced to file for divorce, there are several things that you will have to think about, including, but not limited to: Child Custody, Assets, and Liability’s. It is always best to reach an agreement with your spouse rather than wage battle in court. When attempting to settle with your spouse on asset issues please keep in mind that there are two major types of property ownership categories in the State of Texas: Community Property and Separate Property. Separate property is: 1. property owned prior to marriage; 2....

Turn on the television or open up your internet explorer and chances are you'll see ad after ad for reverse mortgages, all of which are targeted toward senior citizens. With so many scams these days that revolve around mortgages, and those geared toward senior citizens, you do well to want to explore all the details of mortgages before ever signing on for such a deal. So, what are they and how do they work? And why are these ads only geared toward seniors? First of all, it's important to understand that reverse mortgages are advertised to seniors not because they are some type of scam ...

Having such a large number of residents makes the state of Virginia to be also known as possessing a great number of marriage cases. For the service of the general public, the state government has kept these files in the state repository for anyone to access and use. It is the Virginia Office of Vital Records which reports to the State Department of Health that is authorized by the state to maintain these records. It has been said that the state government of Virginia is not easy to deal with in terms of getting information such as that of Virginia Marriage Records. Although it’s public ...

"Born German, Made American" by Nicholas Kumanoff in The Atlantic Times, reveals how "to prove their patriotism, immigrants abandoned their old identities." Following "a virulent anti-German sentiment" that spread to several states, German language classes in school were banned, German books burned in the streets, frankfurters became hot dogs and sauerkraut became "liberty cabbage." Anyone with a German name was suspect and subject to harassment. The American Defense Society announced that a German-American, "unless known by years of association to be absolutely loyal, should be treated as...

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelations 13:14-15 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If ...

Is there a way to lose our salvation? No. However I don't believe it is enough to give an answer without showing Biblically why I believe this. How did we become Born-again? We believed with our hearts and confessed with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and that He was raised from the dead (Romans 10:9-10). It was as simple as that! Now what happened after we became Born-again Believers? Maybe nothing physically changed for us. In our spirits, though, we became new creatures. Old things passed away and all things became new (II Corinthians 5:17). This means when...

For the record, I am a Bible-believer, a Christian-Zionist (one who believes the Prophets foretold the restoration of Jews first of all 12 Tribes of Israel to the Promised Land of Israel before the end of this world as we know it). I am not a Protestant or a "Jew for Jesus" and certainly not a member of the Roman Catholic Cult. I am a baptized member of the Sabbath-keeping Church of God (who believe the plain truth of the Bible that Herbert W. Armstrong taught). It grieves me when I'm on various Jewish sites, pro-Israel sites, and some vainly try and pigeonhole my calls for Jews to fol...

The Jews of today are composed of the 12 tribes. Some, in clear contradiction of the Holy Bible, pretend that all twelve tribes of Israel are Jewish. Such woefully ignorant or deceptive people deny the biblical distinctions between the 12 Tribes and pretend there's only one tribe: Judah. Jacob-Israel had 12 sons. Each son became a patriarch of the tribe named after them. For example there's Judah, whose descendants are Jews. There's also Joseph, whose descendants are Joes. Joseph isn't Jewish! The 12 Tribes of Israel became the nation of Israel that later split in two: Joseph was the...