{"id":2739,"date":"2019-05-01T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudylaw.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:45:47","slug":"what-do-i-need-to-know-about-estate-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/estate-planning\/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-estate-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I need to know about estate taxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5>Do estate taxes apply to me and what do I need to know about them?<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Estate taxes don&#8217;t apply to most families. California does not have an estate tax.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We&#8217;ve all heard about the death tax, and very prominently when George W. Bush and even Obama was in the White House. The death tax is currently at over $5 million as of August of 2017. Most families aren&#8217;t anywhere near that and so it doesn&#8217;t apply to them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If there is an estate tax issue, meaning the estate is worth between $5 and $10 million or more, there are things we can do to help. It involves advanced tax planning with CPAs and financial advisors, and it gets more expensive.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Most people do not need to worry about this.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do estate taxes apply to me and what do I need to know about them? Estate taxes don&#8217;t apply to most families. California does not have an estate tax. We&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}