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Authors: Tay Via, Megan Jennings, Daniel Gershwin, Ashley Weinstein-Carnes, Lisa Gluckstein, and Kit Driscoll San Francisco voters will again confront a formidable ballot on November 3, 2020, with 13 San Francisco prop ...

Authors: Tay Via, Dan Gershwin, Caitlin Connell, Kit Driscoll, and Lisa Gluckstein  While the focus in November is on the top of the ticket, Californians also face a long list of ballot measures. Here we focus on thre ...

Major tax reform discussions are ongoing in Washington and Sacramento while everyone at home is busy navigating the pandemic. Many commentators are predicting that budgetary pressures resulting from the COVID-19 stimulus ...

Authors: Mitchell Edwards and Kit Driscoll Now may be an opportune time to gift assets out of your estate, particularly through an estate planning technique known as the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (“GRAT“)—a s ...

Proposition 19, which will be on California’s November 2020 ballot, dramatically changes the property tax rules exempting certain intra-family transfers and primary residence transactions for certain individuals such a ...

Originally posted to Unfamiliar Terrain Authors: Tay Via, Miles Imwalle, and Ashley Weinstein-Carnes Like so much of this unprecedented year, the 2019-2020 California Legislative Session ended with unexpected twists an ...