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What's New

The clause everyone hates: Mortgage contingency

Wait for new form to file for tax credit

The long road of a Cook Co. eviction

New rules for First Time Buyer Tax Credit and Move Up Buyer Tax Credit

The quirks of buying a Fannie Mae foreclosure

Convenience bank accounts may cause probates


Forms to get 2008 first-time buyer tax credit

(Caution: These forms are for closings before 11/6/09. For closings after 11/6/09, please wait until late December 09 when IRS will issue a new form 5405. Your  refund will be delayed if you use these forms for a closing that happened after 11/16/09)


 

69% of parents with children

under age 18 have no will

Have your will prepared today.

Click here to get started.

No office visits required. 

Packages Include: Will, and power of attorneys for health care and property and Illinois living will.

 


 

Client extranet

 

For the last three we have offered clients a free extranet site for any active file. Generally, we use this for real estate, trust administration or probate matters. It has proven very popular and clients love it.  Everyone gets notice by e-mail anytime a message is posted to the site or a file is uploaded. The software was recently updated so that one does not need to log into the extranet to post a reply; it can be done from your email program.  The extranet helps client stay up to date on their cases.

 

This short video shows how the extranet works.

 

There is no extra charge for establishing a site.


 

IRA Protection Trust

New type of trust allows "stretch out" of IRA for heirs, protects IRA from divorce, creditors and mismanagement

The IRS recently allowed the IRA Protection Trust. Previously, it was difficult, if not impossible, to leave an IRA account to a trust and to allow heirs to stretch out payments from the IRA over their life expectancies.  Now, it is possible to do so using the IRA Protection Trust.

To read more about the pros and cons of an IRA Protection trust click here.