• How Does the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 Affect Estate Planning?

• • Planning
• 11 years ago
• At the start of the year, the U.S. didn’t veer over the so-called “fiscal cliff” when Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA),http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr8/text.  ATRA, which was signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013, extended the Bush tax cuts... [read more]

• Protecting Your Privacy and Access to Personal Health Information and HIPAA

• • Planning
• 11 years ago
• The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 42 U.S.C. 1320d and 45 C.F.R. 160-164, is a federal law that protects your privacy by preventing the unauthorized dissemination of Personal Health Information (PHI). HIPAA privacy rules are nationally recognized and serve t... [read more]