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Franklin J. Feilmeyer
Frank Feilmeyer

Email: fjf@singerlaw.com
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Frank's Ames Iowa Law Blawg

Credit shelter trust trap

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:57:36 +0000
Category: Estate planning, Tax
If a decedent’s credit shelter trust is funded with an amount which is “the largest taxable estate on which no federal estate tax is payable,” what happens when the exemption is very high or nonexistent?

Don’t mess with the judges

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:09:29 +0000
Category: Judiciary
Iowa has a model system for selecting judges. Once again, after a important decision, the courts and the judges are under attack. Iowa has a merit-based system for selecting judge nominees. Commissions comprised of citizen members appointed by the governor and elected by lawyers in the district select the nominees. Let me say it again, [...]

Council member expenses not fully deductible

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:28:52 +0000
Category: Municipal, Tax
Tax law and municipal law came together in Davis, TC Summary Opinion 2010-89. The United States Tax Court sided with the Internal Revenue Service finding that a council member’s expenses need to be treated as unreimbursed employee expenses. In Davis, the husband was a city council member and the wife was a school board member. [...]

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