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National Publication Features

25 Apr 2018 | General | Article | National Publication

How to Ensure the Highest Level of Comfort at the End of Life

End of Life Planning encompasses more than proper documents. It also includes levels of care and interaction. Read more »
25 Apr 2018 | Revenue Rulings | News story | National Publication

7520 Rate for May Stable at 3.2%

For purposes of determining the present value of an annuity, an interest for life or a term of years, or a remainder or a reversionary interest, the applicable federal rate under section 7520 for May... Read more »
25 Apr 2018 | Income Tax | Article | National Publication, Richard L. Fox, Esq.

Are Proposals by States to Recast Tax Payments as Charitable Contributions a Valid End-Run Around the New $10,000 SALT Limitation?

Richard Fox takes a close look at the efficacy of several states' attempted end run around the SALT limitations. Read more »
17 Apr 2018 | Values-Based | Article | National Publication, Bruce DeBoskey, Philanthropic Strategist

Involve kids early in family philanthropy and give them input in giving

Making family philanthropy inclusive of the entire family is the subject of Bruce DeBoskey's latest. Read more »
12 Apr 2018 | General | Article | National Publication, Bryan K. Clontz, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, CAP, AEP

CGNA: Chapter 5 - Agricultural Assets, Intermediate

We continue with gifts of agricultural assets at a higher degree of difficulty and more than a grain of truth. Read more »
12 Apr 2018 | General | Article | National Publication

April is the 14th Anniversary of National Financial Literacy Month

It's national financial literacy month and we are a proud supporter of the cause. Read more »

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2 Mar 2018| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

Solving Community Issues Requires Community Voice

At the Saint Paul & Minnesota Community Foundations, we believe that our role is to partner with the community on the issues of our time. We know that communities are in the best position to... Read more »
26 Jan 2018| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

Kathy Tunheim Elected To Board Of Directors Of The Saint Paul & Minnesota Community Foundations

The Saint Paul & Minnesota Community Foundations are pleased to announce that Kathy Tunheim has been elected to the board of directors. Tunheim has spent the past twenty years as principal and... Read more »
18 Jan 2018| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

Community-Led Grantmaking Brings More Than $225,000 to Cultural Communities

The Saint Paul Foundation today announced more than $255,000 in grants made by the Diversity Endowment Funds -- a group of funds where grant decisions are made by volunteer committees from... Read more »
12 Jan 2018| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

Providing Tools to Build a Healthy Community

The Dalai Lama once offered, "The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's... Read more »
29 Dec 2017| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

Community-Informed Solutions And Bold Partnerships Among $6.4 Million Granted To Community Organizations by The Saint Paul Foundation, F.R. Bigelow Foundation And Mardag Foundation

The Saint Paul Foundation, F. R. Bigelow Foundation and Mardag Foundation recently awarded more than $6.4 million to nonprofits across Minnesota. Among the 190 grants made are organizations that... Read more »
1 Dec 2017| The Saint Paul Foundation, Minnesota Community Foundation

F.R. Bigelow and the Saint Paul Foundation Partnership Invests $2 Million and Creates New Opportunities for Affordable Homes in the East Metro

Renters and homebuyers benefit from new funding models Read more »

Community News

Bryan K. Clontz, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, CAP, AEP | Article

Charitable Gifts of Noncash Assets

Bryan Clontz, MS, MSFS, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®, CAP®, AEP, RICP® Edited by Ryan Raffin, JD Copyright © 2017 by The American College Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be...
Russell N. James III, J.D., Ph.D., CFP | Article

Visual Planned Giving

Visual Planned Giving An Introduction to the Law & Taxation of Charitable Gift Planning Russell James III, J.D., Ph.D. Professor & CH Foundation Chair in Personal Financial Planning...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

Why infect the law of trusts with good faith doctrine?

The law's good faith principle has traditionally regulated legal relationships, such as the contractual relationship. Equity's more intense fiduciary principle has generally regulated equitable...
David Wheeler Newman | Article | Charitable Remainder Trust | 2 comments

Rebirth of the Charitable Remainder Trust

Charitable remainder trusts are back! This according to attorney and PGDC contributing author David Wheeler Newman of Mitchell, Silverberg & Knupp, LLP. Read on to see why CRTs are enjoying...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | News story

Law Professor Blows the Whistle on his Colleagues

Professor Brian Tamanaha's new book, Failing Law Schools, does a good job of explaining why borrowing to obtain a lower tier law school education has become a bad deal for all too many, but...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | News story

Mediation and Arbitration have their limitations when it comes to trust disputes

Unless the fiduciary issues and the representation issues in a trust dispute are properly sorted out in advance, there is a very real risk that an ill-considered rush to mediate or arbitrate will...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

The Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Scheme (IOLTA): Could the medical profession get away with fleecing patients this way?

It is coming on a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the IOLTA scheme constitutes a collective taking by the state of the property of clients. Still the scheme continues. Nothing has...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

Reliving the 200-year Saga of Benjamin Franklin's Massacheusetts Trust

Next year, 2013, marks the 20th anniversary of the judicial/political resolution of the final controversy over the administration and disposition of a certain Massachusetts-sited trust established...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

Could the Myriad Codifications of Aspects of the Law of Trusts Culminating with the Uniform Trust Code (2000) Be Doing More Harm than Good?

Though the trust is a judge-made creature of equity, the last eighty years have seen numerous rounds of uniform legislation codifying various aspects of the law of trusts, beginning with the Uniform...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

The Academics Are Just Plain Wrong: The Trust Is Not a Contract

Since the 1960s, the trust has been under attack on two fronts in the American law school. First, the traditional Trusts course has been down-graded to elective status, a misguided curricular “...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article | 2 comments

Law Schools No Longer Adequately Equip Their Students To Think Like Lawyers: The Unintended Consequences of Decontextualizing Contracts

The process of paralegalizing the American legal academy is now complete. It was inevitable. A course in Contracts does not a complete lawyer make. The curricular marginalization of two of the other...
Charles E. Rounds Jr, Fiduciary Consultant | Article

Newly-Minted Lawyers Are Generally Poor Writers: Why the Law Schools Are Largely to Blame

In an article published on line in 2010, Charles E. Rounds, Jr. suggested that the expansion of legal writing programs in the law schools at the expense of instruction in core legal doctrine is why...