Comprehensive estate planning involves more than just planning for your legacy after your death, by avoiding probate, and reducing taxes. Good estate planning also appoints people to make legal, financial, and medical decisions
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For many business owners, their business is one of the most valuable and important things they own. When it is time to sit down and create an estate plan, it is critical that
A couple in which one spouse is not a U.S. citizen may need to engage in special estate planning. It is important to note that the general estate planning rules do not change
In 2022, a federal district court in Maryland held that tax exemption qualified as federal financial assistance to subject a private religious school to Title IX requirements. Because some small private schools avoid
Nonprofits generally should avoid making loans to officers and directors even though Virginia does not prohibit such loans. In fact, under Va. Code § 13.1-826(9), nonstock corporations explicitly have the power to lend
Virginia allows plaintiffs to recover from the employer of an individual who negligently harms them on three theories: negligent hiring, negligent retention, and vicarious liability. Negligent Hiring & Retention Negligent hiring occurs when
The IRS defines a charitable contribution as a “donation or gift to, or for the use of, a qualified organization.” A charitable contribution must be made voluntarily without an expectation of receiving anything
Tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations must operate primarily to achieve religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes and may not carry on more than an insubstantial amount of commercial activity unrelated to its charitable purposes. Nonetheless,
The IRS offers group exemptions whereby a central organization’s federal tax exemption will apply to its subordinates and obviate any need of the subordinates to separately apply for exemption. Rather than each organization
There are two main protections afforded to religious employers: the ministerial exception and Title VII’s coreligionist exception. These protections extend only to certain employment decisions and do not insulate religious institutions from other
