The federal tax overhaul just doubled the amount of wealth you can pass to heirs estate-tax-free—without using any trusts or planning gimmicks.
Yet rather than looking for a new specialty, top trust lawyers are positively giddy about the opportunities created by the law US President Trump signed three days before Christmas.
The letter of the law allows slightly more than $11 million per person to be passed to kids or other non-charitable heirs free of federal gift or estate tax.