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- Spousal SupportPhyllis Horn Epstein spoke at the ABA Tax Section’s mid-year meeting in New Orleans this January 18, 2019 on the motivating tax policy behind the Tax Controversies and Jobs Act of 2017. Some topics covered elimination of the alimony deduction and the impact of rate changes on individuals and families.
- Corporate LawCORPORATE LAW LESSONS FOR CEOs: Top Professional Corporate Lawyers Share What They Know Best, published by Execsense (October 24, 2012) and available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com:80/dp/B009WY0XVG. The Epsteins’ chapter may be accessed at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Liabilities-Corporate-Directors-ebook/dp/B009F2B0IK/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1356125301&sr=1-2
- Business DisputesMs. Epstein served on the executive board of the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association was the Supervising Editor of its newsletter...
- Real Estate LitigationOur special areas of practice include corporate and business matters, tax planning and representation before the Internal Revenue Service and the United States Tax Court, real estate matters, probate and trust administration, estate planning, transactions, and family and elder law.
- Estate PlanningMs. Epstein’s practice is in tax planning, estate planning, tax controversy matters before the IRS and in the Tax Court, trust and estate management, Orphan’s Court litigation, corporate transactions, and elder law.
- WillsOver the years, Ted Gruenbaum worked with Adolf Eicholtz, writing wills and trusts and administering estates. In 1927 Eicholtz took in a young lawyer to work for him named Maxwell E. Verlin, and over time, Gruenbaum began working with Verlin and Eicholtz later retired. Around 1947 Max Verlin brought in the recently graduated David Goldberg to the firm and at that point the firm became known as Verlin and Goldberg.
- TrustsI suppose that every history of anything must come from the perspective of the author, and so I naturally chose my own. My earliest contact with the firm came around the year 1947 as a teenager when my father, Max and his accounting firm, began to share offices with the law firm that was then known as Verlin and Goldberg. Max Verlin was in his late forties and David Goldberg was in his mid-twenties, recently graduated from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania after serving in World War II. Verlin handled mostly will, trusts and estates, and Goldberg did most everything else that came to the firm. The office was on the twelfth floor of a building situate on South Penn Square across from City Hall that was later demolished to make room for a building built by and as Philadelphia Headquarters for Mellon Bank that was later destroyed by a fire in 1991 and itself demolished. The ground is now used for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton.
- Power of AttorneyIRS is essentially operating at a minimum level. Most of its employees have been directed to work from home starting March 30, there are no in person meetings, and we are informed that while mail is received it is not being sorted or opened. As practitioners we know that it is very difficult at this time to file our representative powers of attorney or to reach out to an IRS representative on your behalf on the practitioner hotline. On the other hand, we know that until July 15 IRS has suspended payments (but not interest) under existing installment agreements and will not default any installment agreement, initiate a lien or levy or refer a delinquent taxpayer to the State Department for passport revocation (but who’s traveling anyway?). IRS will not refer an account for Private Debt Collection nor will they start any new audits.
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- Tax LawFor some twelve years Mr. Epstein served as a faculty member of the American Law Institute/American Bar Association Committee on Professional Education, teaching the continuing legal education program “How to Handle a Tax Controversy at the IRS and in Court” and as a faculty member of the joint ABA/ U.S. Tax Court National Institute on Tax Court Rules. He has spoken on tax matters before numerous state bar associations throughout the United States, has authored, or co-authored both articles and books on tax procedure, including the CCH Federal Income Tax Service, and has testified before the Finance Committee of the United States Senate on pending tax legislation.
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